Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
“I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”
Alex Blasdel • The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’
consciousness and
What If I Told You...? Event Psychology Podcast • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters
podcasters.spotify.comconferencing
This is why the idea that speech is violence is so dangerous. It tells the members of a generation already beset by anxiety and depression that the world is a far more violent and threatening place than it really is. It tells them that words, ideas, and speakers can literally kill them. Even worse: At a time of rapidly rising political polarization... See more
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Thinking about curiosity as going beyond the need for quick answers also highlights the power of what happens when we engage with uncertainty: having to ponder and anticipate answers can improve learning and memory, and curiosity can facilitate brain states that help us encode new information. Learning new things can be tough, but harnessing... See more
Alison Adcock • No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
Third-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI - Scientific Reports
nature.com
Extended Mind and conferencing
self-talk
Just because the computations are happening under the hood and they're vast and complex, it doesn't mean they're guaranteed to be correct. Intuition is quite often wrong or makes a decision based on things that you wouldn't feel proud of doing if you had access to it.
intuition and
On the other hand, I am a believer in radical hope, by which I mean recognising that the chances of success may be slim but still being driven to act by the values and vision you are rooted in. Time and again, humankind has risen up collectively, often against the odds, to tackle shared problems and overcome crises.
The challenge we face as a
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all of this information, plus your appearance and voice, are used to create a moving, talking version of yourself that sits in a little screen above the phone’s main screen. You summon it by pressing a square button on the side of the phone, then you ask it to do things.
This little AI phone has some wild ideas
A Simple, 5-Minute Breathing Technique Is a Powerful Tool to Reduce Anxiety
Carly Cassellasciencealert.com
anxiety reduction