Neuroscience

When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.

Sohail Inayatullah • Foresight in Challenging Environments * Journal of Futures Studies

https://jfsdigital.org/articles-and-essays/2018-2/vol-22-no-4-june-2018/foresight-in-challenging-environments/

Roshi Joan Halifax tells a story about witnessing a conversation in the early 1970s between Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, and Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist and systems theorist, about the mind. Bateson asked, “Where is the mind?” Salk pointed to his own head. Bateson chuckled, shook his head, and pointed to the space between... See more