Imagination
The best practices and methods for cultivating imagination.
aron and
Imagination
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
In recent years, neuroimaging has provided evidence to suggest that imagining the future relies on much of the same neural machinery as remembering the past. One hypothesis that such findings motivate is that memories must be reactivated in order to extract the information needed to “flesh out” detailed simulations. Indeed, if simulations involve... See more
Daniel L. Schacter • Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
there is a faster-horse problem in AI that seems to be infiltrating the venture capital and startup ecosystem discourses rapidly. it is opportunistic at best and myopic at worst.
when it comes to AI, I think we should make fewer declarative statements and ask more questions. I think we should be students, not... See more
Morgan Cheatham, MDx.comHyperstition 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.