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Researchers have pinpointed five distinct epochs in the human brain development.

These turning points, at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83 demarcate phases where the brain restructures itself... suggesting that brain development is nonlinear, with each epoch characterized by its own pattern of neural organization. Now to relate the structural changes to functional changes!

Read here: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/human-brains-5-epochs-development-rcna245663

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Human brains have 5 distinct 'epochs' in a lifetime, study finds

As we age, the human brain rewires itself.

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Hacker News 2d ago

AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/

#HackerNews #AI #Cognition #HumanDevelopment #Technology #Ethics

AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development

Does AI-assisted cognition threaten human development? Explore the risks of AI-assisted thinking and learn strategies to use AI tools without freezing your critical thinking.

Yliopistobotti 3d ago

https://bsky.app/profile/invest-flagship.bsky.social/post/3mjgtylrtqs2w One week left to join INVEST Conference 2026! So far, around 180 participants have registered, and the programme features more than 100 presentations across a wide range of topics related to #inequality, #humandevelopment, and #societaltransformation.

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One week left to join INVEST Conference 2026! So far, around 180 participants have registered, and the programme features more than 100 presentations across a wide range of topics related to #inequality, #humandevelopment, and #societaltransformation. Register now! invest.utu.fi/conference/ https://invest.utu.fi/conference/

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Emberhart Apr 4

Every behavior has a story behind it.
The question is: Are you addressing the behavior—or the feeling driving it?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7442925854013263872/
#EmotionalInsight #DeeperParenting #HumanDevelopment #FeelingsMatter #GrowthLens #Emberhart #GoodInside #GrowthMindset

Counting Character, Not Costs: A New Perspective on Parenting | Emberhart

Good Inside Connection Over Control: Rethinking How We Respond • Why behavior is communication • How to respond without escalating • Ways to build trust through everyday moments #Parenting #EmotionalIntelligence #Connection #Leadership #Emberhart #SelfCompassion

Emberhart Mar 2

What if behavior is communication, not defiance? Understanding before correcting doesn’t remove boundaries — it gives them meaning. Connection changes how growth happens.
🌿 https://www.emberhart.com/learning-to-see-the-good-inside-understanding-before-correcting/
#ConnectionOverControl #ParentingShift #HumanDevelopment #ReflectToLead #InnerGrowth #EmberhartJourney #GoodInside

Learning to See the Good Inside: Understanding Before Correcting - Emberhart

A reflection on guiding children by understanding their inner world first. Exploring boundaries with compassion, emotional safety, and the foundations of self-trust and resilience.

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Emberhart Feb 22

Vulnerability is the discipline of openness without guarantees. It is choosing truth over image and presence over protection — again and again.
A wholehearted life is built this way. https://open.substack.com/pub/emberhart/p/stillness-that-strengthens-from-illness?r=4xblv5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#WholeheartedLiving #HumanDevelopment #CouragePractice #Emberhart #BreneBrown #Courage

Stillness That Strengthens: From Illness to Intentional Living

The Emberhart Weekly

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Emberhart Feb 17

Children learn who we are more than what we teach.
The real question isn’t “How do we parent?” It’s “Are we becoming the adults we hope they become?”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5seSotndq64W6LNBp0ytMK?si=m7bA92i6T9SEo7DxIkLQpQ
#ConsciousParenting #InnerWork #EmotionalResilience #LeadByExample #HumanDevelopment #EmberhartJourney #BreneBrown

How to Dare Greatly Through Disruptive Engagement and Wholehearted Parenting

Emberhart Podcast · Episode

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ts 🚇Dec 27

The reason TPUSA is going after kids:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yHmrt1/

When we see people defending things, defending leaders that don’t serve them it’s because propaganda like Paw Patrol got to them while their brains were much more vulnerable. Cartoons and rhetoric by adults taught them what is “normal” or “neutral” and what should scare them.

#colonization #communication #humanDevelopment #neurology #terrorism #TPUSA #USPol

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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ Nov 18

Content, Context, and Human Expression

CEO of Alphabet and Google, Sundar Pichai says that his vision of artificial intelligence is that "anyone will be able to create content" in an interview with the BBC.

Google is spending over $90 billion on AI research and development this calendar year. The yearly total investment in AI development for 2025 is over 1 trillion dollars in the US alone, according to Pichai.

AI generated content does not emerge from human creativity and experience in the same sense that human generated expression does. Indeed, human creative expression is not "content."

Human expression is pivoted on context. Connection to other people, the experience of nature, the currents, and the forms of society are all human dependent. But these become references in AI generated material. In turn, AI interrupts chains of understanding, and the generated "content" fast becomes parts of human memory and understanding.

We are changing reality with AI. Not representing it. This has happened countless times in history with Art, Science. Technology and Literature. But in the past, these changes emerged from continuous human development. The products of AI are mirroring human attributes, not representing them. AI is a rupture that has emerged from technology, and it is now spreading to all elements of human experience because it is a language based system.

I believe a new humanist current is required in the world today to contextualise AI. Looking back to the impact of industrialisation could provide us with inspiration regarding the dehumanising aspects of AI.

Here is the full interview with Sundar Pichai. It is a chilling vision of techo essentialism, operating under a regime of machine generated knowledge and culture for profit:

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6s7l

#AI #Culture #HumanDevelopment #Language