Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
people turn to AI with existential questions and complex, unresolved scientific problems because they think that the mystical processes in AI systems generate knowledge or insights that far exceed human cognitive abilities.
RHET AI. Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
cognition 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
not one thing
Rethinking the Gut's Neurons: Newly Discovered Neurons Upend Established Theory - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsneurosciencenews.com
Mindfulness Research and conferencing
feeling tone
reading habit may be one of the useful strategies for protecting mental health via increasing self-compassion, particularly in people with depressive temperament.
https://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/1/1/10.20935/MHealthWellB6176
who knew? and
One might point out that movie characters or videogame NPCs give off a similarly deceiving impression of being conscious, and yet it would surely be extreme to condemn this. However, what makes the illusion particularly worrying in the case of AI companions is that it involves an interaction that is direct, mutual, and persistent: the feigned... See more
The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship — PRISM
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
Patient Perceptions of In Vivo Versus Virtual Reality Exposures f
Amanda N Levy • Patient Perceptions of In Vivo Versus Virtual Reality Exposures for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
well-being and VR
VR therapy
The Assemblage of Play
An exploration of the concept of assemblage and its application to the study of computer games, focusing on the interplay between technological artifacts, game experience, and sociality.
tltaylor.comresearch