Mary Martin
- Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.
from Embodiment
Mindfulness and
- Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
- Their finding is part of wider realization in the neuroscience community, that our brain does not simply react to what comes in through our senses. Instead, we have a predictive brain, that permanently predicts what comes next. The expected sensory input is then suppressed. We see the world from the inside out, rather than from the outside in.
Of co... See morefrom Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News by Neuroscience News
- I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
from On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays by David Waltner-Toews
- But the future is not a self-fulfilling prophecy - 8 billion people on this planet have a voice and that carries far more weight than one person with 8 billion dollars. We just forgot how to exercise it.
from Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future by Theo Priestley
Futures thinking and
- Our prospective randomized clinical trial found that MBSR was noninferior to escitalopram for the treatment of anxiety disorders. In addition, MBSR was safe and well tolerated, with fewer adverse events associated with treatment compared with escitalopram
from Mindfulness as Effective as Antidepressant for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders by Richard Sears
- A popular narrative now casts all living entities as ‘machines’ built by genes, as Richard Dawkins called them. For Mayr, biology was unique among the sciences precisely because its objects of study possessed a program that encoded apparent purpose, design and agency into what they do. On this view, agency doesn’t actually manifest in the moment of... See more
from The biological research putting purpose back into life | Aeon Essays by Philip Ball
Agency and consciousness