Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Asking people to change themselves instead of changing the work environment around them is a strategy that not only wastes resources but may also infuriate employees, who feel like all the responsibility for dealing with a toxic work environment and unrealistic demands rests on their shoulders alone.
Davia Sills • The End of Workplace Mindfulness Training?
Optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in 2 epidemiologic ...
pnas.org
research
The hippocampus has been a focus in the study of recombination during simulation – perhaps unsurprising given the established role of this structure in relational processing, including the binding together of disparate elements during working memory as well as episodic encoding and retrieval (Axmacher et al., 2010; Eichenbaum, 2001; Hannula &... See more
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
Those of us who recognize that we’ve been here before are the ones who have to call attention to where we are heading.
Digital feedback loops are helping us see that our media, technology, culture, economy, and natural world all have at least as much of a cyclical character as a linear one.
It’s not a matter of banishing linearity and progress
... See moreTurkle referenced the issue of behavioral metrics dominating AI research, and her concern that the interior life was being overlooked, and concluded by saying that the human cost of talking to machines isn’t immediate, it’s cumulative. 'What happens to you in the first three weeks may not be...the truest indicator of how that’s going to limit you,... See more
The Human Cost Of Talking To Machines: Can A Chatbot Really Care?
What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood
frontiersin.org
solitude and
UO
Spines Targets 8,000 AI-Generated Books by 2025, Sparking Debate In The Publishing Industry
timesnownews.com
publishing and AI
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
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Mindfulness and
feeling tone