Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
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
Effects of Expressive Writing on Psychological and Physical Health ...
Andrea N. Nilesncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mindfulness Research and conferencing
expressive writing
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
What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.
Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
consciousness and conferencing
panpsychism
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
As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the
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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?
When Anyone Can Fake Anything (Inside My AI Law & Policy Class #14)
Csikszentmihalyi’s research suggests that flow is conducive to optimal experience . But it doesn’t tell us anything about whether it is conducive to optimal performance . So look for flow when you want to feel better, but not necessarily when you want to do better.