Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
The precuneus is involved in mental imagery concerning the self, episodic memory, and modeling other people’s views—all of which are main components of the DMN. Benedek and Jauk, psychologists specializing in research on creativity, note that “higher creativity is consistently associated with higher gray matter density in DMN regions, especially... See more
Joseph Carroll • Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts
The distinctive feature of imagination, therefore, rests on its capacity of creating new mental images by combining and modifying stored perceptual information in novel ways and by inserting this information in a subjective view of the world: hence it is related to his self-awareness. In other words, imagination is not simply the organization,... See more
Luigi F Agnati • The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network
well-being and workplace
C-suite's responsibility
‘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
not one thing
The more you build your self-conception
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.
Article
non-narrativity and
Galen Strawson
Today’s values have allowed us to totally miss the point that the climate crisis is a moral failing. American values are strongly materialistic, anthropocentric, individualistic, and contempocentric. Consumerism and materialism seek to meet human needs, even non-material ones, through ever-increasing purchase of goods and services. Consumption is... See more
Clearing skies: Opening a new path on climate and the future
Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Tim Baynetheconversation.com
consciousness and conferencing
debate
the explicit feeling of selfless minds may be tacitly accompanied by the implicit feeling of unlimited body, as two sides of the same coin. To put it provocatively: the only and unique occasion when one truly loses one’s self is when one’s body becomes a corpse (i.e. death).
Mindfulness and