Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life’s biggest questions, and that’s why they’re the questions occupying the world’s brightest minds. Together, let’s learn from them. Welcome to The Well, a publication by the John Templeton Foundation and Big Think.
“The first thing we do when a baby is born is we hold the baby…
That is an act of co-regulation, skin-to-skin contact. We are teaching a child from that very young age that proximity to a caretaker is a form of regulation. So emotion regulation begins in the seconds following birth.”
“I was very fortunate to have early exposure to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT…
and I immediately realized they’re very good at active listening. If you’ve gone to marriage counseling, you’ve probably heard this term, right? It’s like Conflict Mediation 101 — you rehearse someone’s statement back to them to demonstrate that they’ve been heard. It’s a very simple thing, but in the heat of an argument, we’re not good at this.”
