Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Explaining Neurochemistry & Emotions: An Interview with Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
Jamie Whealneurohacker.com
How Much Time and Energy Do We Waste Toggling Between Applications?
Harvard Business Review • How Much Time and Energy Do We Waste Toggling Between Applications?
Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Tim Baynetheconversation.com
consciousness and conferencing
debate
AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is like to be you or me. Others study its function — cognitive processes and behaviours enabled by being conscious. These differences muddy attempts to compare ideas.
Mariana Lenharo • The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
if an animal
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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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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.
Article
narrativists and
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
The idea that all our choices are determined by past events may seem dispiriting – but it can be emotionally liberating
