Mary Martin
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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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Your brain on imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows
sciencedaily.com
Futures thinking and
research - imagination is like reality
‘When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.’
Exploring the intersection of health, mindfulness, and climate change
Mindfulness and
Thich Nhat Hanh
Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and that we’re central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we’ll never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we’ll keep defaulting to a view of nature as something to gain... See more
Adam Frank • The "blind spot" in science that's fueling a crisis of meaning
A new study reveals that regardless of task difficulty, people’s minds increasingly wander with time, reaching a 50% distraction rate towards the end of activities. Analyzing over 10,000 participants in 68 studies, the research found no significant difference in distraction levels across various tasks. This phenomenon persists even without external... See more
Neuroscience News • Mind Wandering is Inevitable Over Time - Neuroscience News
if an animal
’
s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.
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narrativists and
We humans aren't the only ones to experience cognitive decline as we age. Research conducted by neurologists and data scientists reveals that some artificial intelligence models struggle with visual, spatial, and executive tasks as they get older, suggesting that they, too, age away from peak performance. The study highlights an unanticipated... See more