Mary Martin

Whatever action I take, walking, eating and excreting, incurs a cost to other lives, whether by killing and eating them directly, or by eating foods that they could otherwise have lived on. The most extreme impact my life has on other species is extinction, not just of their physical presence, but also of their memories, both those acquired within... See more

This engineered ease of consumption reduces oral and digestive effort and diminishes natural signals of fullness (i.e., vanishing caloric density), signaling to the brain that fewer calories are being consumed and encouraging greater intake

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

‘When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.’

Do animals experience mental illness?

Modern science shows animals and humans may experience fear-based anxiety in similar ways.

Individuals can exert influence over the future but they exist in larger fields that condition their choices: epistemological, ontological, economic and cultural or class, gender, varna, civilization type, dynasty, cultural personality or ways of knowing the real. Futurists, in general, tend to focus on the individual’s ability to create the future... See more