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

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The Relationship Between Memory and Planning for the Future

The way that we imagine the future is by combining and recombining Elements from our memories and putting them into novel constellations. You know if you're trying to imagine the future the raw material for that is going to come from your memories. It's not really just so useful to transplant a specific memory Into the future and imagine that what happened last time is what's going to happen next time That can be useful, but the more useful thing is to be able flexibly combine stuff from the past and imagine Alternative ways the future could play out.

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