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Futures thinking
New Study Provides Pivotal Insights As To What the Rapidly Unfolding Future Will Look Like
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Thus, it remains an open question as to whether the hippocampus is necessary for future simulation.
Donna Rose Addis • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
“Work-related Resilience, Engagement and Wellbeing Among Music Industry Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multiwave Model of Mindfulness and Hope”
Kristin L. Scott • How Hope Beats Mindfulness When Times Are Tough
The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in; it is the social art par excellence, the carapace of political fantasy, the exoskeleton of one’s economic dreams. It is also the one art nobody can escape.
From Utopia to Futurescapes: Futures Literacy for Next Generations of Architects and Designers * Journal of Futures Studies
I need a greater facility with multispecies languages. I am engaging in a conversation across cultural divides with other multitudes, whose languages and modes of perception we have only just begun to explore.
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
According to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, extracted episodic details must also be recombined into a coherent event simulation. This recombinatory ability is thought to be central to flexibly imagining the future – to construct as well as disassemble and rework the components of scenarios to create different outcomes to enhance... See more
RP Roberts • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
While it’s tempting to play with scenario planning and leave it at the implications, we must not hide behind the data, deck or titles of our roles, protecting us from the vulnerability of getting out there and doing the messy work: making the futures we wish to see.
Matt Klein • Foresight as Activism: Researching vs. Making Culture
Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
Because their thoughts, words and actions are infused with wisdom andcompassion, a person rooted in the present moment is like a brightly shining star that can be used to help navigate in thedark. They invigorate those around them and point out theway to individuals wanting to leave behind mindless livingand find their inner self. Their capacity to... See more