Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
Daniel L. Schacterfrontiersin.org
Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
The DLPFC tells us how our present experience relates to the past and how it may affect the future—you
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Challenging the past as a viable template for the future is an important part of envisioning and enacting new futures. The parts of the brain responsible for creative imagination are directly linked to those that store and manage memories. Our ideas about the future are essentially tapestries remixed from of our memories of former days.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Robin Carhart-Harris and colleagues have argued that the Freudian primary process is characterised by high levels of entropy. The primal, infant brain state is disorganised; however, as the infant matures, organisation is the inevitable by-product of a system in which free energy is minimised. The ensuing (low entropy) 'structure' that emerges equa
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‘Memories of the future really is what you’re talking about. The idea that by briefly or temporarily putting yourself in the future and thinking about what it’s like there, and then coming back to the present, that that influences the decisions you make about your behaviour between now and the future, and how you can cope and change things in order
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