Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
The Futures Triangle can also be used for inner
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
inayatullah-2023-the-futures-triangle-origins-and-iterations.pdf
Futures thinking and
Their finding is part of wider realization in the neuroscience community, that our brain does not simply react to what comes in through our senses. Instead, we have a predictive brain, that permanently predicts what comes next. The expected sensory input is then suppressed. We see the world from the inside out, rather than from the outside in.
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Neuroscience News • Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
Erica Berry • ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays
we tell ourselves that humans do something clever or tactical because our brains have simulated that this course of action will produce favourable outcomes, but when we learn that ants do the same thing by enacting preprogrammed responses to pheromones, surely that doesn’t count.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Unlike humans, AI can’t flexibly navigate changing environments yet because it does not have a notion of its “self” and what it can do with it.
Rachel Layne • How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
ai and the self and
While it’s tempting to play with scenario planning and leave it at the implications, we must not hide behind the data, deck or titles of our roles, protecting us from the vulnerability of getting out there and doing the messy work: making the futures we wish to see.
Matt Klein • Foresight as Activism: Researching vs. Making Culture
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 moreThe community remains puzzled about whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks, or seemingly succeed by memorizing the training data. This paper makes important strides in addressing this question. It constructs a suite of carefully designed counterfactual evaluations, providing fresh insights into the capabilities of... See more
Zhaofeng Wu • Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated
7 types of rest