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Imagining a Better Way

Human imagination is both a valuable survival asset and the source of lingering anxieties. Ironically, imagination also promises us ways to quell these anxieties. I say promises because fulfillment can’t truly be possible. This peculiar dynamic reminds me of the Möbius like geometry of Escher’s Waterfall. We can imagine a better something and so we […]

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Apr 29, 2012 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: bio-hoodwink, future, gossip, hunter gatherer, imagination, memory, past, perfect, suffering

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