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L'avvenimento siamo noi

Attenzione, perché questo è uno dei limiti che troveremo lungo la strada: credere che non potete farcela, pensare che sia troppo per voi. Marguerite Yourcenar mette in bocca al suo personaggio Zenone una frase molto bella a riguardo: «L’avvenire è gravido di più occasioni di quante non se ne realizzino. E non è affatto impossibile di sentirne qualcuna muoversi in fondo alla matrice del tempo. Ma l’avvenimento solo decide quale di queste larve è vitale e si tradurrà in realtà» (L’Opera al Nero). E l’avvenimento siamo noi.

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#future #choice #self

Different connections, different kinds of self

Where Greenfield gets a little more speculative is when she imagines the variations in types of selves which might emerge if different kinds of connections…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #brain #self #future

Foresight and the autobiographical self

As well as hindsight, foresight is a characteristic part of autobiographical selves. We can plan ahead with incomparably more sophistication than even the…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #future #animals

The future is Nobody's

Greenfield’s worry is that the future is Nobody’s.

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #future #technology

AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species

By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s…

Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #evolution #artificial-intelligence #future #humanity

Dewey and going green

John Dewey supported parents at a time when the United States was transitioning from an agricultural to an industrial age. Had someone mentioned “going green”…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #education #environment #children #future

Five kinds of identity criteria

So far, we have identified the following classification of identity criteria: style, socio-political system, technological capabilities, strata, and cultural…

Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #cultural-influences #future #style