Your Body Knows Things Your Brain Forgot
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AI-sourced speaker candidate for The LecternName: Dr. Blake Hestir Locale: Fort Worth, TX — DFW-local WHY FIT Professor of Philosophy at TCU Fort Worth whose teaching and research explicitly integrate philosophy of mind, phenomenology, embodiment, and contemplative studies, bridging ancient philosophy with contemporary mind-body questions. BIO Dr. Hestir is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of CALM Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. His scholarship focuses on philosophy of mind, existential phenomenology, and the mind-body-ecology nexus. He teaches experiential philosophy courses including Mind Body Ecology and Mind Consciousness Self, integrating philosophical inquiry with evidence-based mindfulness and embodied practices. He is co-founder of The Mind Body Ecology Institute. PUBLIC CONTACT B.Hestir@tcu.edu (email) SOURCES - https://www.tcucalmstudies.org/faculty-staff/blake-hestir - https://addran.tcu.edu/philosophy/academics/courses.php CONFIDENCE: high Search query: Your Body Knows Things Your Brain Forgot. The original title suggests a talk about the ritualistic, embodied, and repetitive aspects of daily life, likely framed with dry humor about mundane bodily routines. The talk is literally about the philosophy and neuroscience of habit, embodied cognition, somatic intelligence, or the phenomenology of everyday physical rhythms—how walking, sleeping,
What this talk is about
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Where · Times Ten Cellars.
Your body carries knowledge your conscious mind never registered. The rhythm of your morning routine, the posture you fall into when anxious, the way your shoulders remember stress before you notice it. Dr. Blake Hestir examines how everyday physical patterns structure consciousness and identity, drawing on philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and contemplative practice to explore what embodied cognition actually means.
Hestir teaches experiential philosophy at TCU, where his courses integrate philosophical inquiry with mindfulness and embodied practices. His work sits at the intersection of ancient philosophy and contemporary questions about the mind-body relationship, treating the body not as a vessel for the brain but as a site of intelligence in its own right.
How the night goes
Doors at 6:30 PM. Claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Dr. Blake Hestir takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. Meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.
Who's speaking
Dr. Blake Hestir
Dr. Blake Hestir is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of CALM Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he teaches courses on philosophy of mind, existential phenomenology, and the mind-body-ecology nexus. He is co-founder of The Mind Body Ecology Institute.
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