HR!Day781 - Fri 10/13/23 Compassion 2.0 The Neuroscience of Compassion & Prosociality - Tom Eddington, Carson Kelly, Chris Germer & Nicco Reggente & Leo Christov-Moore
- --- Humanity Rising Day 781 - Friday October 13, 2023 (GoTo Bottom)
This Week: Compassion 2.0
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Compassion is rooted in our neurobiological evolution as tools for survival to be a part of a group. Today’s conversation will be an exploration into the overview of this field and looking at current research.
Moderators: Tom Eddington, Carson Kelly
Convener: Jim Garrison
Panelists:
Christopher Germer is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Dr. Kristin Neff in 2010 and MSC has since been taught to over 250,000 people worldwide. They co-authored two books on MSC, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program.
Dr. Germer spends most of his time lecturing and leading workshops around the world on mindfulness and self-compassion. He is the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and he co-edited two influential volumes on therapy: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy. Dr. Germer is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, Cambridge MA, as well as the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Harvard Medical School. He maintains a small, online psychotherapy practice.
Leo Christov-Moore is a neuroscientist, artist and complexity theorist investigating trust, vulnerable AI, mind/body interactions, and the role of non-ordinary states in deep belief change.
- I would like to track the formation of trust relationships in groups tasked with a coordinated endeavor over time. I would track how conscious/cognitive and affective/somatomotor/visceral coordination covaries with the i) decrease in group-level entropy, ii) the emergence of collective homeostatic processes, and iii) efficiency and coordination at the behavioral level. Broadly, how do trust and empathy mechanisms facilitate the formation of groups? How does our consciousness distribute itself within our social networks?
- there’s an untapped area of study within how conscious beliefs and thoughts, specifically mental imagery, can have profound effects upon our organism. I’m also very interested in the manners by which our social milieu and exchanges of conscious and unconscious information within it shape our subjective experience of the world and our behavior within it. I’m excited to develop theoretical frameworks, simulations, and experiments with which to probe these topics further.
Nicco Reggente, Ph.D
Nicco Reggente is a neuroscientist and co-founder of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies where he currently serves as Principal Investigator. The overarching theme of his research is the development of neuroimaging-informed, personalized neurotechnology to help individuals achieve desired outcomes. Nicco’s research has spanned the domains of memory, consciousness, and psychiatric disorders. His current focus is on leveraging immersive technology to induce maximally beneficial qualia (e.g. meditative, entheogenic states) that can be captured and re-instantiated via neurofeedback.
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