Mary Martin

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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.

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What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood

frontiersin.org

solitude and

greater inquisitiveness motivated people to slow down, be patient and invest in experiencing the winding path to resolution.

Abby Hsiung • No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient

patience and curiosity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-spoilers-please-why-curiosity-makes-us-patient/

In February, scientists formed a new field, called organoid intelligence (OI), which is now considered the next frontier of biocomputing. To meet AI's growing computational needs, there's a shift away from traditional Von Neumann architecture towards more innovative approaches. One is neuromorphic computing, inspired by the brain's structure, which

What technology will matter most in 2024?

Futures thinking and

cognition is the result of information processing distributed across all cellular systems in the body, including the brain, which is, in our view, (part of) the body. Speaking about brain-body-environment interactions in constituting cognition may be misleading because it tacitly inherits the distinction between mind (brain) and body. Cognitive... See more

The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms

embodied cognition and cognition

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

Neuroscience and

people turn to AI with existential questions and complex, unresolved scientific problems because they think that the mystical processes in AI systems generate knowledge or insights that far exceed human cognitive abilities.

RHET AI. Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

rhetoric and

https://journals.openedition.org/aad/9943

the pregnant person body is not an ‘external environment’ within which the foetus is solitary and ‘confined’, waiting for the ‘lightbulb’ of consciousness to be switched on at a given timepoint when the neurogenesis is completed. Here I propose that both the easy and hard problem of developmental consciousness cannot be addressed without putting

consciousness and

The role of gratitude in motivating intergenerational environmental ...

Ezra M. Markowitz sciencedirect.com

Gratitude research

gratitude

However, many people may not realize that during the last few years of his life Maslow believed self-transcendence, not self-actualization, was the pinnacle of human needs. What's more, it's difficult to find any evidence that he ever actually represented his theory as a pyramid .

Scott Barry Kaufman • Who Created Maslow’s Iconic Pyramid?

Maslow and