Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
workplace and
burnout, boundaries, self-care
To meet these challenges and increase the impact of foresight work, we need to rethink our approach from the very beginning of a project.
Johannes Kleske • The Beginning and the End of Foresight
a particularly vivid form of future thinking: the imaginative construction or simulation of scenarios that might occur in one’s future. We hypothesized that the flexible use of episodic details from memory during imaginative simulations of the future can help to understand constructive aspects of memory, such as its susceptibility to distortion... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
Rethinking the Gut's Neurons: Newly Discovered Neurons Upend Established Theory - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsneurosciencenews.com
Mindfulness Research and conferencing
feeling tone
suffering is the result of the event coupled with the person experiencing the event inside a culture
Niklas Serning • Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?
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.
Yasemin Saplakoglu • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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Kind Words is arguably the best game for any person feeling lonely, as it can be enjoyed even by non-gamers. The objective is to write and receive letters from other anonymous players. The contents of these letters tend to be heartfelt stories about people’s lives.
10 Games To Play When You're Lonely
Gaming and
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.