Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
"A lot of how we feel," she explains, "is all about the systems we interact with, whether they're other people or technology. We're interacting increasingly with technology over time, and I think things like how much time we spend staring at screens, our phones and social media is impacting our mental health. So maybe, by having machines that have... See more
Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI
WELLNESS SHOULD BE THE FOUNDATION OF ALL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES
Exploring how retail can contribute to health and wellness, including design solutions, sensory experiences, and creating meaningful connections with customers.
Linkspacial therapy
intelligence has inadvertently become a ‘human success’-shaped cookie cutter we squish onto other species. Switching from baking to sports metaphors, we could say that everyone else – animals, amoebas, AIs and aliens – has to play the game on a field that we have laid out, according to rules that we have established and proven ourselves extremely... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
One of the most honest accounts I’ve encountered of humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals comes from political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel, who describes it as a state of war — not a metaphorical war, but a literal one, in which we are the aggressors. If you were an alien who knew nothing about our species, you might expect a civilization that... See more
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
There is a clear need for conceptual agreement on the meaning
of mindfulness, not only to facilitate communication about the construct but, most pragmatically, to create a stable platform of basic and applied research in this
still young area of investigation.
https://www.academia.edu/11912225/Mindfulness_Theoretical_Foundations_and_Evidence_for_its
... See moreMindfulness and
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See moreYou can do this practice not only thinking of people you care about, but also visualizing people you don’t like. It’s important to have an unbiased, compassionate attitude toward whatever is arising.
Pema Chödrön • A Bodhicitta Practice -- Pema Chödrön
lovingkindness and
More than taking up time, these high-functioning, high-achieving people have found that mindfulness practice creates time.” One executive shared that it yielded the greatest ROI he’s ever seen.
Jenna Abdou • We lose 50% of our time together from distraction. These neuroscience-backed practices will help you reclaim it
The brain evaluates the images it is processing against a “reality threshold.” If the signal passes the threshold, the brain thinks it’s real; if it doesn’t, the brain thinks it’s imagined.