Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Just over a year ago, on a visit to one of the world’s most prestigious research institutes, I challenged researchers there to account for intelligent human behaviour without reference to any aspect of the IP metaphor. They couldn’t do it
aeon.co • Your Brain Does Not Process Information and It Is Not a Computer | Aeon Essays
Neuroscience and
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?
“People with certain diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration slowly lose their eyesight as photoreceptors at the center of the eye degenerate,” said Udo Römer, an engineer whose expertise is in photovoltaics, commonly known as solar panel tech. “It has long been thought that biomedical implants in the retina could... See more
Solar panels in your eyeballs: Self-powered bionics are on the way
signals of hope and
AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion
A randomized trial on differential changes in thought and affect after mindfulness versus dyadic practice indicates phenomenological fingerprints of app-based interventions - Scientific Reports
nature.com
Mindfulness Research and conferencing
apps
7 types of rest
Power is making one description seem more real or natural than others.
Thomas Berry • Turning leadership inside out
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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Is it more important to reform existing social networks or to work to build new ones?
Ethan Zuckerman • 🐾 a Social Network Taxonomy.
taxonomy.