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A paper reality is being created that has less and less to do with actual reality.

Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

theory of mind allows us to lie convincingly.

Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, first you shape your mask(s) and thereafter, your mask(s) shape you. Just as an IRL costume or mask changes the way you carry yourself, a digital garment can transform your thought processes and habits of mind

Aaron Z. Lewis • Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter

Experiences of the possible transform the self . The fact that humans can pretend things are not what they are, reimagine the past, envision multiple futures and conceive the impossible, are all transformative experiences.

Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto

The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual

Yancey Strickler ideaspace.ystrickler.com

While we know that our imaginations shape our sociocultural experience through the creation of worlds, modernity thrives by throwing tight constraints around it, degenerating our ability and capacity to imagine radically new futures into being. This ontological war against possibility is ‘defuturing’ — there are less futures available to us; or put... See more

Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility

the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.

Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

La création littéraire n’était pas pour lui une nécessité et il ne la sentit jamais comme une mission. Il considérait qu’écrire était une des nombreuses possibilités qui s’offraient à lui pour percer, pour dominer le monde par l’argent et par la gloire : « Il voulait être un grand homme et il le fut par d’incessantes projections de ce fluide plus p

Stefan Zweig • Balzac: Le roman de sa vie (French Edition)

The development of the concept of creativity by psychologists and creative thinking experts allowed for the emergence of a new form of subjectivity, the creative person. The creative person was a producer in a world of consumers.