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martedì 11 luglio 2023
# life: declining towards turbulence, thus ecstatic (detotuthec)
lunedì 26 marzo 2018
# zen: compassionate neanderthal
AA << review evidence for Neanderthal healthcare, drawing on a bioarchaeology of care approach and relating healthcare to other realms of Neanderthal social life. The authors argue that Neanderthal medical treatment and healthcare was widespread and part of a social context of strong pro-social bonds which was not distinctively different from healthcare seen in later contexts >>
AA << suggest that the time has come to accept Neanderthal healthcare as a compassionate and knowledgeable response to injury and illness, and to turn to other questions, such as cultural variation or the wider significance of healthcare in an evolutionary context >>
Penny Spikins, Andy Needham, et al.
Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context. World Archaeology. doi: 10.1080/ 00438243.2018.1433060. Feb 22, 2018.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2018.1433060
University of York. Compassion helped Neanderthals to survive, new study reveals. Mar 13, 2018.
https://m.phys.org/news/2018-03-compassion-neanderthals-survive-reveals.html
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# s-ethnomed: ancient flexible eat; self-medication among Neanderthals with aspirin and penicillin like. Mar 18, 2017.
https://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2017/03/s-ethnomed-ancient-flexible-eat-self.html
venerdì 13 ottobre 2017
# zen: short daily mental practices induce structural plasticity in socio-affective and socio-cognitive brain networks
AA << have recently discovered that different types of mental training positively affect either our attention abilities or our social competencies such as compassion and perspective-taking. These improvements in attentional-, socio-emotional or cognitive capacities are parallelled by structural changes in dissociable brain networks supporting these skills. In addition, the scientists were able to show that the release of the stress hormone cortisol after exposure to a psychosocial stressor was significantly reduced only after practising mental techniques aiming at improving social competencies but not by mindfulness-based attention-increasing techniques >>
Tania Singer, Verena Muller. Improving social skills through mental training changes brain structure and reduces social stress. Max Planck Institute. Oct 4, 2017
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/press-release/improving-social-skills
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171004142653.htm
Sofie L. Valk, Boris C. Bernhardt, et al. Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Sci Adv 2017; 3(10) e1700489 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700489 Oct 4, 2017
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/10/e1700489
mercoledì 12 aprile 2017
# s-brain: an individual grey kernel of proto-buddhist compassion inside
<< (..) local grey matter volume in the left anterior superior temporal sulcus, a region in the functionally defined theory of mind or mentalizing network, was associated with the degree to which participants relied on information about innocent intentions to forgive accidental harms >>
Indrajeet Patil, Marta Calo', et al. Neuroanatomical correlates of forgiving unintentional harms. Nature. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 45967 (2017) doi:10.1038/srep45967. Publ. 06 April 2017
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45967
also:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=%22Theory+of+Mind%22
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=brain+buddhism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=brain+meditation
venerdì 20 maggio 2016
# n-bot: gracefully conversations ...
<< Google wanted their bots to be smarter and eventually more conversational than the rest of the bots out there. And in order to do that they are technically feeding their AI machines with 2,865 romance novels so they could respond to conversations better >>
<< Google believes that by doing so, they could potentially inject some 'personality', conversational skills and who knows, maybe even a dash of 'compassion' into their artificial intelligence technology >>
Jessica F. Google‘s Artificial Intelligence Robot is Reading 2,865 Romance Novels: Find Out Why. May 13, 2016 07:54 AM EDT
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/22143/20160513/googles-artificial-intelligence-robot-is-reading-2-865-romance-novels-find-out-why.htm
venerdì 22 gennaio 2016
# n-trade: the gross national product does not allow for
<< Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans. >>
Robert F. Kennedy. Kansas University, March 18, 1968
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches/Remarks-of-Robert-F-Kennedy-at-the-University-of-Kansas-March-18-1968.aspx
domenica 20 dicembre 2015
# s-zen-behav: a compassionate, fundamental approach
<< compassion — and intentionally cultivating it through training — may lead us to do more to help the wronged than to punish the wrongdoer. Researchers found compassion may also impact the extent to which people punish the transgressor >>
http://news.wisc.edu/a-compassionate-approach-leads-to-more-help-and-less-punishment/
Helen Y. Weng, Andrew S. Fox, et al. The Role of Compassion in Altruistic Helping and Punishment Behavior. PLOS ONE, 2015; 10 (12): e0143794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143794
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0143794
<< Un punto focale del pensiero di Shih T'ou e' il concetto di mutua interazione (hui hu) tra chiarezza e oscurita'. Questo significa che il mondo delle contaminazioni e quello della purezza sono interdipendenti. Se abbandoni uno, abbandoni anche l'altro >>
"6. Meta' combacianti (Ts'an t'ung ch'i) del maestro Shih T'ou Hsi Ch'ien (700-790)"; in "La poesia dell'illuminazione ". Astrolabio, Ubaldini Ed., Roma (2001); pag.97. " The poetry of enlightenment". Dharma Drum Publications, New York (1987).