Imagination Research
Futures thinking
Mary Martin and
Imagination Research
The Phoenix, Lewes
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The distinctive feature of imagination, therefore, rests on its capacity of creating new mental images by combining and modifying stored perceptual information in novel ways and by inserting this information in a subjective view of the world: hence it is related to his self-awareness. In other words, imagination is not simply the organization, iden... See more
Luigi F Agnati • The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network
Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself, not the means?
In the beginning, the dissonance between the scale of your aspirations and the reality of your days will riddle you with anxiety. You will be tempted to strip the unknown of its surprises and travel to the future: What if my customers churn? What if a competitor introduces a be... See more
In the beginning, the dissonance between the scale of your aspirations and the reality of your days will riddle you with anxiety. You will be tempted to strip the unknown of its surprises and travel to the future: What if my customers churn? What if a competitor introduces a be... See more
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #49
The brain evaluates the images it is processing against a “reality threshold.” If the signal passes the threshold, the brain thinks it’s real; if it doesn’t, the brain thinks it’s imagined.
Yasemin Saplakoglu • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
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
Participants said the workshop helped them notice they were not considering certain groups in their future thinking. Socially oppressed groups are left outside their typical future imagination. This was one of the aspects that participants considered central learning, the necessity to think about others.
Another learning that participants identified... See more
Another learning that participants identified... See more
On The Social Complexity of Neurotechnology: Designing A Futures Workshop For The Exploration Of More Just Alternative Futures * Journal of Futures Studies
the imagination is a neurological reality, that it is lodged in specific parts of the brain, that it consists of an identifiable set of components and processes, that these components and processes have adaptive functions, and that in fulfilling its functions imagination has been a major causal factor in making Homo sapiens the dominant species on ... See more
