Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Your brain on imagination: It's a lot like reality, study shows
sciencedaily.com
Futures thinking and
research - imagination is like reality
Could gaming enhance brain plasticity and executive functions (EFs) by fostering creativity? We identify vital benefits from further research exploring the relationship between games, brain plasticity, and creativity.
Christiane Ganter-Argast • (PDF) The light side of gaming: creativity and brain plasticity
Gaming and
Daniel Schmachtenberger l An introduction to the Metacrisis l Stockholm Impact/Week 2023
youtube.comOur financial system is so obviously incompatible for the biosphere.... I want a lot of optionality for having anything I want.
our preoccupation with facts – the information that links us to each other – perhaps causes us to disregard other ways of understanding meaning in our relationships, such as touch, intuition and facial expressions.
Isabel Sutton • Dementia is not a death. For some, it marks a new beginning | Psyche Ideas
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think.... See more
Mary Martin • IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
Mindfulness and
we’d argue that if you produce something iconic, you can create a cultural moment that ripples through people’s crowded psyches and impacts them deeply. And if you’re culturally and commercially successful, it paves the way for future experiments: it becomes easier to both sell tickets and sell ideas to potential clients.
Olivia Squire • 7 Ways To Make An Iconic Experience In 2024 — WXO
scientific investigations of the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems are urgently needed, and they cite ethical, legal and safety issues that make it crucial to understand AI consciousness. For example, if AI develops consciousness, should people be allowed to simply switch it off after use?
Mariana Lenharo • AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
AI hype and
well-being and workplace
C-suite's responsibility