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@StephenRees@mas.to
2026-03-18 01:00:29

From SFU
The 2026 Munro Lecture: The Age of Polycrisis with Adam Tooze
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and much, much more

"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…