Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
‘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.’
Exploring the intersection of health, mindfulness, and climate change
Mindfulness and
Thich Nhat Hanh
The community remains puzzled about whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks, or seemingly succeed by memorizing the training data. This paper makes important strides in addressing this question. It constructs a suite of carefully designed counterfactual evaluations, providing fresh insights into the capabilities of... See more
Zhaofeng Wu • Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated
the point of advising is to assist someone in solving a problem without sharing responsibility
Joshua Habgood-Coote • Recognise the point of giving advice and you can do it better | Psyche Ideas
Communication and Advice
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See morecognition 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
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
... See moreNeuroscience and
The sleeping giant is one name for the public; when it wakes up, when we wake up, we are no longer only the public: we are civil society, the superpower whose nonviolent means are sometimes, for a shining moment, more powerful than violence, more powerful than regimes and armies.
Rebecca Solnit • The Guardian
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