Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully ‘predicted’ a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
Futures thinking and Imagination
Cory Doctorow
The discovery suggested to Robert that electrostatics can enable a plant-pollinator mutualism, a well-known example of coevolution. This dynamic — in which a bee feeds on a flower’s nectar and gathers pollen to feed larvae, and also propagates pollen from flower to flower, enabling plant reproduction — was already well established. The potential... See more
Max G. Levy • The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology | Quanta Magazine
consciousness and conferencing
panpsychism
LY Corporation has been digging through the data for Pokémon Sleep, and the overall results show that users have been resting easy and well since the app came out.
rawmeatcowboy • Pokémon Sleep users are getting more sleep finding better sleep methods when compared to non-users
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
Deep Longevity Ltd • Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness
More than taking up time, these high-functioning, high-achieving people have found that mindfulness practice creates time.” One executive shared that it yielded the greatest ROI he’s ever seen.
Jenna Abdou • We lose 50% of our time together from distraction. These neuroscience-backed practices will help you reclaim it
Physically speaking, humans are a middling mammal with an odd hair pattern, a badly evolved back, and a mouth that no longer fits all our adult teeth. All of which is why we really like brains.
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
The Assemblage of Play
An exploration of the concept of assemblage and its application to the study of computer games, focusing on the interplay between technological artifacts, game experience, and sociality.
tltaylor.comresearch
Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.