Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
ess Is Making Waves
Mindfulness: The Surprising Business Model
Just because the computations are happening under the hood and they're vast and complex, it doesn't mean they're guaranteed to be correct. Intuition is quite often wrong or makes a decision based on things that you wouldn't feel proud of doing if you had access to it.
intuition and
The brain evaluates the images it is processing against a “reality threshold.” If the signal passes the threshold, the brain thinks it’s real; if it doesn’t, the brain thinks it’s imagined.
Yasemin Saplakoglu • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
ChatGPT-4 was pitted against 151 human participants across three divergent thinking tests, revealing that the AI demonstrated a higher level of creativity. The tests, designed to assess the ability to generate unique solutions, showed GPT-4 providing more original and elaborate answers.
Neuroscience News • AI Outshines Humans in Creative Thinking - Neuroscience News
White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming
politico.com
climate news
Extensive analysis of 152 countries uncovers societal determinants of happiness
Eric W. Dolanpsypost.org
conferencing and
GDP
Vipassana Meditation: Six Doors of the Senses
buddhanet.net6 doors of the senses
Racist attitudes like Galton’s were not uncommon among the British aristocracy at the heights of colonialism, but Galton gave them scientific backing. He had the authority of a world traveler, in the tradition of Victorian naturalists like his half-cousin aboard the Beagle. His assessment of the supposed inferiority of others to white Britons was a... See more
Aubrey Clayton • How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
racism and
Harvard Developed AI Identifies the Shortest Path to Human Happiness