Alva Noë

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10
• ESEmbodied Sensibility

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Karl FristonCARTOGRAPHER

  Free energy principle — minds as inference engines minimizing surprise.

• Anil SethTOUCHSTONE

  Being You — perception as a controlled hallucination.

• Andy ClarkTOUCHSTONE

  Extended mind — cognition leaks out into pen, paper, and phone.

• Francisco VarelaCARTOGRAPHER

  Autopoiesis — biology as self-making circular causality.

• Susan HaackTOUCHSTONE

  Foundherentism — knowledge like a crossword, not a pyramid.

• Owen FlanaganTOUCHSTONE

  Naturalized ethics — moral psychology grounded in biology.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Alva Noë's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.