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Invisible Present
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Invisible Present

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Colin Wright
Feb 23, 2023
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Brain Lenses
Invisible Present
In 1990, a zoologist named John Magnuson published a paper entitled Long-Term Ecological Research and the Invisible Present, in which he speculated that our "temporal myopia" psychologically limits us to what he calls the "invisible present." In this context, the Invisible Present is a moment in time in which everything is normal: we lack proper, personally experienced context that might show us how things were different in the past, which in turn limits our capacity to predict how things might change in the future…
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