Mary Martin

Many experts are concerned about how the adoption of AI systems over the next decade will affect essential human traits such as empathy, social/emotional intelligence, complex thinking, ability to act independently and sense of purpose. Some have hopes for AIs’ influence on humans’ curiosity, decision-making and creativity.

So is this the real threat? Not that we’ll believe false things, but that we’ll stop being able to identify true things? Where truth becomes impossible to establish?

The challenges of circular economy is a topic many people want to avoid. I mean who wants to be the sustainability party pooper? No-one. On the contrary: you want to be positive and hopeful: we need solutions to the climate and sustainability crisis! And circular economy is a solution! However, we cannot hide our heads in the sand. The problems... See more

Two weeks of 20-minute yoga nidra sessions led to a higher percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep and better memory, decision-making, and abstraction

our preoccupation with facts – the information that links us to each other – perhaps causes us to disregard other ways of understanding meaning in our relationships, such as touch, intuition and facial expressions.

The results showed that people with a higher desire to so-cially connect were more likely to anthropomorphize the chatbot, ascribing humanlike mental properties to it; and people who anthropomorphized the chatbot more were also more likely to report that it had an impact on their social interactions and relationships with family and friends.

How Much Time and Energy Do We Waste Toggling Between Applications?

We now know that the brain’s capacity to learn, to adapt, to change in response to experience is so fundamental that it strikes the wrong note to say that an activity (like meditation) ‘changes the brain’ as if such change is special or unusual. In fact, everything we do changes the brain on some level. Or rather, the brain is constantly changing,... See more