Geometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs) @RahulSam

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Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of mental health interventions via hyperscanning; drawing on active‑inference theory, process philosophy, and embodied cognition, he models interpersonal neural networks via information geometry to examine how collective priors and affect drive shared intelligence in agential systems. In this episode, we discuss second-person neuroscience, geometric hyperscanning, interbrain networks, social cognition and neomaterialism.

You can find more of Dr Hinrichs' work at nicolashinrichs.de and linkedin.com/in/nicolas-hinrichs

Nicolás will be presenting at iwaiworkshop.github.io in October and giving a talk, "A Generative Geometry of Collective Intelligence," at Karl Friston's Theoretical Neurobiology Group in November (please get in touch with him for details).

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$Geometric Hyperscanning, Interbrain Networks and Social Cognition (w/ Nicolás Hinrichs) Dr Nicolás Hinrichs is a researcher at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, interested in the behavioural and neurobiological correlates of mental health interventions via hyperscanning; drawing on active‑inference theory, process philosophy, and embodied cognition, he models interpersonal neural networks via information geometry to examine how collective priors and affect drive shared intelligence in agential systems. In this episode, we discuss second-person neuroscience, geometric hyperscanning, interbrain networks, social cognition and neomaterialism. You can find more of Dr Hinrichs work at https://nicolashinrichs.de/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-hinrichs/ Nicolás will be presenting at https://iwaiworkshop.github.io/ in October and giving a talk, A Generative Geometry of Collective Intelligence, at Karl Fristons Theoretical Neurobiology Group in November (please get in touch with him for details). RSam Podcast #82 Please consider financially supporting my work (ONLY if you have the means). 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