Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
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Imagination
there is something quite rebellious and empowering about using your own mind to create other realities.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.
Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies
The gift of fantasy over knowledge
The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.
Rhiannon Williams • AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
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?
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.