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Mapping, Alive

Science and Nature

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Mapping, Alive

How the Brain Weaves Meaning into SpaceMike Finn

Mapping, Alive

Length26m

About this audiobook

Place‑ and grid‑cell research is often celebrated as proof of an “inner GPS,” a tidy cartographic module humming behind the eyes. This essay argues the metaphor sells the science short. Drawing on hippocampal physiology, enactivist philosophy, and field studies from London cabbies to Arctic hunters, Mike Finn shows that spatial cognition is less internal cartography than embodied storytelling: neurons, memories, and purposes co‑activate to enact place rather than record it. The result is a concise reconsideration of the Nobel‑winning discoveries—one that relocates navigation from detached mapping to the lived entanglement of movement, meaning, and memory.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ (4.0) (1)

GenreScience and Nature, Psychology

Length26 mins

Publish dateMay 30, 2025

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter 0

8The Modern Navigational Paradox

2The Poetry of Place Cells

9Bridging Two Worlds

3The Limits of Internal Cartography

10The Feel of Place

4The World That Acts Back

11Implications for How We Live

5Movement as Thinking

12Walking Into Meaning

6The Already-Meaningful World

13The Path We're Laying Down

7The Meaning-Making Brain

About the author

Mike Finn

Mike Finn

I am a clinical psychologist with deep interest in phenomenology and existential psychology. I am a psychotherapist by day and a writer by night. Sci-fi but phenomenology (study of experience) as the "sci" part has been a fascinating area to work in and has allowed for free exploration and processing of ideas or experiences I have experience or encountered.View all audiobooks by Mike Finn

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