Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
not to give
Jonathan Rowson • The Inner Life of the Future
3 horizons
people turn to AI with existential questions and complex, unresolved scientific problems because they think that the mystical processes in AI systems generate knowledge or insights that far exceed human cognitive abilities.
RHET AI. Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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
From Brainstorming to Bodystorming: Co-Creation Workshop Analysis Using Applied Video Ethnography
Exploring the use of applied video ethnography in a co-creation workshop to understand the design process and behaviors of participants in shaping a financial planning toolkit.
Linkbrainstorming
Interestingly, many users who emotionally mourned the ‘loss’ of GPT-4o expressed complete awareness of its lack of consciousness. And yet, in many cases, the subjective grief that they felt was no less real. This demonstrates that the power of the illusion is such that a given user might not actually believe that their AI companion is conscious,... See more
The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship — PRISM
Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.
Embodiment
although piquing interest can indeed drive an urgent desire for answers, it can also elicit more patience, setting people up for those moments of discovery.
Jia-Hou Poh • No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain.
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
cognition and
Ultimately, shifting the focus from neural to cellular processing invites us to reconsider the received idea that cognitive processes can be linked solely to the neural system, and that the brain is somehow the natural home of mental states.