Scientists Discover What Really Happens In The Brain When We Imagine The Future

Joseph Kable got interested in imagination when he was studying how people make decisions about the future. “People can decide to do things like go to medical school or graduate school, where the goal they are trying to achieve can be 10 years (or farther) into the future,” said Kable. Decisions like that don’t make sense unless people have the “capacity to imagine what that distant future might be like.” But what really struck Kable, a professor at U. Penn and director of the mindCORE institute, is how little we know about how imagination really works in the brain.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists Discover What Really Happens In The Brain When We Imagine The Future

Joseph Kable got interested in imagination when he was studying how people make decisions about the future. “People can decide to do things like go to medical school or graduate school, where the goal they are trying to achieve can be 10 years (or farther) into the future,” said Kable. Decisions like that don’t make sense unless people have the “capacity to imagine what that distant future might be like.” But what really struck Kable, a professor at U. Penn and director of the mindCORE institute, is how little we know about how imagination really works in the brain.

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>Decisions like that don’t make sense unless people have the capacity to imagine what that distant future might be like.

Do decisions ever make sense? Or are they just a readout of the electrical state of the brain at one specific time?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Scientists Discover What Really Happens In The Brain When We Imagine The Future

Joseph Kable got interested in imagination when he was studying how people make decisions about the future. “People can decide to do things like go to medical school or graduate school, where the goal they are trying to achieve can be 10 years (or farther) into the future,” said Kable. Decisions like that don’t make sense unless people have the “capacity to imagine what that distant future might be like.” But what really struck Kable, a professor at U. Penn and director of the mindCORE institute, is how little we know about how imagination really works in the brain.

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All anyone can ever do, is imagine the future. Yes you may try and project and plan but it is still largely guesswork.

dunno, saying researchers discovered something called the default network is a bit like giving gravity a new name, say a massattractior, and saying researchers discovered it with a massattractor detector

regard imagining the future, it starts with there is a future, and it maybe the case that you don’t just progress forward into it, with it, but more it’s coming toward you, it’s not an entirely forgiving thing, or dynamic, so lends to some practical consideration, it’s a force