Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Walker there is no path, the path is made when walking | ICAMA
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walker there is no path
recent research offers a reassuring perspective—that AI-delivered therapeutic interventions have reached a level of sophistication such that they’re indistinguishable from human-written therapeutic responses.
Marc Zao-Sanders • How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
a problem with mindfulness as a strategy
Work‐related resilience, engagement and wellbeing among music ...
Missing the point about mindfulness and
Is that it’s not a strategy
Physically speaking, humans are a middling mammal with an odd hair pattern, a badly evolved back, and a mouth that no longer fits all our adult teeth. All of which is why we really like brains.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Per this framework, main ingredient to meaningful & flourishing lives:
Expand "the phenotypic bound on the amount of surprise people can tolerate in their lives," or: inhabit the goldilocks zone of uncertainty.
Fun paper by @PredictiveLife & @JulianKiverste1. Few other riffs:... See more
mindfulness 2.0 and
What do we know about gaming disorder?
youtube.comWhen the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.
Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental question of
... See moreconsciousness and
“Work-related Resilience, Engagement and Wellbeing Among Music Industry Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multiwave Model of Mindfulness and Hope”