Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
although piquing interest can indeed drive an urgent desire for answers, it can also elicit more patience, setting people up for those moments of discovery.
Jia-Hou Poh • No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
What I’d like to do here is first introduce the MWI to first show you what it is. I’ll compare it to the standard introductory textbook view of QM which is called the Copenhagen Interpretation. I’ll then show you what MWI implies about the nature of the world and how this differs from other interpretations, with a specific emphasis on what each... See more
Some Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness — SNOWDROP
Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.
Embodiment
There are some gifts, by the way, that you do not have to pay for. Gifts that come at no cost. Gifts that do not require wrapping paper. Gifts that do not contribute to climate change. Gifts that can help bring peace and harmony to the world.
Here are 3:
Here are 3:
- The Gift of a Smile.
- The Gift of Listening.
- The Gift of Gratitude.
Damian Bacchoo • The Three Gift Rule
gift economy and
Not only could the same model no longer be accurate, but furthermore, this polluted content could then be used by the other LLMS for their own training. They, in turn, deposit terabytes of distorted information on the internet (This vicious cycle will eventually ruin both the internet and our ability to use chatbots effectively, I fear). This means... See more
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Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Well-being: A Scoping Review
Vaiphei Suantak • Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Well-being: A Scoping Review
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
Philip Ball • Life With Purpose
Agency and consciousness
A new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, has revealed that mindfulness meditation engages distinct brain mechanisms to reduce pain compared to those of the placebo response.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-brain-scans-reveal-mindfulness-meditation.html
Mindfulness and
A lot of effective altruism organizations have made AI x-risk their top cause in the last few years,” explains Sayash Kapoor from Princeton. “That means a lot of the people who are getting funding to do AI research are naturally inclined, but also have been specifically selected, for their interest in reducing AI x-risk.”
Thus, the interest in AI... See more
Thus, the interest in AI... See more