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Does evolving the future preclude learning from it?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Peter W. Dowrick
Peter W. Dowrick*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Auckland, PB 92019, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. p.dowrick@auckland.ac.nzwww.creating-futures.org
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Abstract

Despite its considerable length, this article proposes a theory of human behavioral science that eschews half the evidence. There is irony in the title “Evolving the Future” when the featured examples of intentional change represent procedures that build slowly on the past. Has an opportunity been missed, or is an evolutionary perspective simply incompatible with learning from the future?

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 422 - 423
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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