Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
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Imagination
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?
I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully ‘predicted’ a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
Cory Doctorow
Research has shown a staggering number of health benefits associated with dispositional optimism, from improvements in cardiovascular health, to how quickly wounds heal, to slower disease progression.
What We Get Wrong About Manifesting
This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
David Nield • This Camera Takes 1,000 Years to Capture a Single Photograph
futures thinking
Embodied CLA: The Role of Polyvagal Theory in Futures Methodology – A Conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Debra Em Wilson * Journal of Futures Studies
jfsdigital.org
vagus nerve and imagination
Imagining is a rigorous discipline. Imagination is our greatest national resource, one that drives value creation across the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and business. All compelling entrepreneurial ventures, transformative social movements, and technological breakthroughs begin with an inspired sense of possibility.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
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
Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
