Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
we tell ourselves that humans do something clever or tactical because our brains have simulated that this course of action will produce favourable outcomes, but when we learn that ants do the same thing by enacting preprogrammed responses to pheromones, surely that doesn’t count.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Deep Longevity Ltd • Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Feeling like Barbie? Here are tips for finding purpose in the real world, based on science
Victoria Vlisidesnews.wisc.edu
Purpose
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains
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On the other hand, I am a believer in radical hope, by which I mean recognising that the chances of success may be slim but still being driven to act by the values and vision you are rooted in. Time and again, humankind has risen up collectively, often against the odds, to tackle shared problems and overcome crises.
The challenge we face as a
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This is why the idea that speech is violence is so dangerous. It tells the members of a generation already beset by anxiety and depression that the world is a far more violent and threatening place than it really is. It tells them that words, ideas, and speakers can literally kill them. Even worse: At a time of rapidly rising political polarization... See more
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figure of merit
sensationalist headlines conjuring fears of a techno-dystopian near-future overshadow more material issues over AI ethics that already exist – including how they reflect human biases, and the many ways in which they’re capable of manipulating users.
Why we should worry less about ‘sentient’ AIs and more about what we’re teaching them | Aeon Videos
Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind - PubMed
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Imagination and
mental time travel is human - research