Futures thinking
Imagination
Futures thinking
Individuals can exert influence over the future but they exist in larger fields that condition their choices: epistemological, ontological, economic and cultural or class, gender, varna, civilization type, dynasty, cultural personality or ways of knowing the real. Futurists, in general, tend to focus on the individual’s ability to create the future... See more
Macrohistory and the Future (1998) – Metafuture: Futures Studies by Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević
The Futures Triangle can also be used for inner
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
work. The pull of the future is where one
wishes to be, the desired personal life one
imagines for oneself. The weight of the past can
be blocks - inner or outer - preventing one from
achieving the vision. The pushes of the present
can be enablers or externals pushes one needs
to navigate.
inayatullah-2023-the-futures-triangle-origins-and-iterations.pdf
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain... See more
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain... See more
John Lysaker • Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
mental time travel is human - research
The hippocampus has been a focus in the study of recombination during simulation – perhaps unsurprising given the established role of this structure in relational processing, including the binding together of disparate elements during working memory as well as episodic encoding and retrieval (Axmacher et al., 2010; Eichenbaum, 2001; Hannula &... See more
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
research - imagination is like reality
New Study Provides Pivotal Insights As To What the Rapidly Unfolding Future Will Look Like
mailchi.mpfinancial planning
a particularly vivid form of future thinking: the imaginative construction or simulation of scenarios that might occur in one’s future. We hypothesized that the flexible use of episodic details from memory during imaginative simulations of the future can help to understand constructive aspects of memory, such as its susceptibility to distortion... See more