I often wonder what kind of bearness might be next. I am a bear.

0/ This worries me. Selves exist on multiple levels, partially as stories/models that achieve degrees of reality with the telling/enacting. Happier App tenpercent.com/podcast-episod…

🎨 New! Art Therapy toolkit 🎨 🔗 capc.org/toolkits/art-t… Art therapists are becoming increasingly involved in palliative care across the country. This toolkit provides resources to support the integration of #arttherapists within the interdisciplinary care team. #arttherapy

I wonder how much of the efficacy is from the act of walking, how much from being immersed-in/connected-to nature, and how much of the benefit comes from their interaction/synergies.

1/ Happy surprise seeing some of my old work (on entrainment, trance, and climax) discussed by Adam Neely (my go-to person for learning about music theory, which I've been trying to use as a metaphor/model of mental phenomena more generally).

What Caregiving Skills would you put on a resume? #Caregiver

If intentions can be 'causal', then would conscious beliefs and desires be some of the most powerful predictors of behavior (from 1st or 3rd person perspectives); in other words, a universe with free will might look just like this one, which is why folk believe in it?

Ink line drawing over salted watercolor, on antique paper.

Now that my friend Sam Harris is off twitter I’d like to respectfully announce that we actually do have free will!

Kinto (kinto.care) is searching for a "Customer Success Strategist." The hope: bring more compassion and companionship into the lives of caregivers. Send me a message if you/someone you know might be interested in this work, and I will be happy to share more.

🙏 Royal Society Publishing royalsociety.org/blog/2023/04/s…

Compassion and empowerment for all. 1drv.ms/w/s!AgQ_WiKqEq…

I feel like something abt the way we approach aging is wrong. I feel a lot happier, prettier, more creative in my 30s, more attracted to ppl less autistic. I know technically cells supposed to be starting to die and fertility near end? But doesn't feel that way.

To what extent could GPT-assisted robotic pets/helpers assist with eldercare (particularly with respect to dementia (and loneliness))?

I'm looking forward to this.

Dr Dennis Chan (UCL ICN) uses new technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality to assess spatial navigation, which can enable the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. #WorldAlzheimersDay #UCLDementia Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3EOyrDL

Congrats to Adam Safron (&co) for finally getting 'ALBUS' published! The phenomenological effects of psychedelics are extremely multi-faceted, and they deserve appropriately complex treatments, even if those have to sometimes be partially speculative. academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

Looking forward to hearing what Robin Carhart-Harris thinks of our attempts to expand on his (deep and rich body of) work (e.g. REBUS, entropic brains, child-like minds, etc.). academic.oup.com/nc/article/202… Matthew W. Johnson Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center Michael Pollan Alison Gopnik