Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
What it means for something to ‘sink in’ emotionally | Psyche Ideas
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allowing the felt sense of the process
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental question of
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Although the shift did not happen that quickly, there is certainly evidence to suggest that the role of mindfulness within psychological treatment is here to stay and will only increase as times goes on.
Lynn Rossy • Mindfulness: More Than Just a New Technique
Mindfulness and therapy
Co-Create Financial Planning Services for an Aging Population: Designers' Perspectives
Design considerations for creating financial planning toolkits and services for an aging population, based on co-creation workshops with designers from various disciplines.
cambridge.orgFinancial planning for aging populations - Sheng
Our prospective randomized clinical trial found that MBSR was noninferior to escitalopram for the treatment of anxiety disorders. In addition, MBSR was safe and well tolerated, with fewer adverse events associated with treatment compared with escitalopram
Richard Sears • Mindfulness as Effective as Antidepressant for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring, and creativity – A review
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Focused attention, open, and creativity - research
Though our collective forgetting is enormous, it is mostly unremarkable to those who study the transmission of culture. What puzzles me, and others who study transmission, is why so much unwritten knowledge has survived. Despite the brittleness of cultural practices, skills proliferate with and without records, chaining generation to generation,... See more
Helena Miton • How do we transmit culture when it cannot be put into words? | Aeon Essays
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