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#793 Adam Bulley - The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

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The Role of Foresight in Planning for the Future

I'll maintain that foresight is a universal human Capacity that develops in essentially every healthily developing person And then they use it for all kinds of different reasons and different ways. It's really hubristic to say something like Oh that hunter gatherers, you know don't need to plan as much for the future because they don't have agriculture or whatever Like it doesn't make any sense like it's so much foresight to Exist in as a hunter gatherer The planning involved on a day-to-day basis is just immense but I'm not sure why people discount the future more steeply In environments that are more hostile can be very readily explained by a rational Ad

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