This is the Library of Human Imagination.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination.

Interestingly, it seemed to correspond more or less to Jung's four subdivisions of human thought.

It's one of the great products of the human mind.

One other factor that seriously threatens peace everywhere is wrong thinking.

It's not something in the human mind. The human mind can, of course, appreciate it and enjoy it, use it, but it's not it doesn't stem from the human mind.

So these are just some of the kind of basic ideas around design thinking and some of the new kinds of projects that they're being applied to.

They said, They have become really deep thinkers and so on and so forth.

They're really approaching, in many cases surpassing, the ability of the human mind.

In the glass panels are 5,000 years of human imagination that are computer controlled.

Well, let's just do the same thought experiment, but let's do it with a different fraction.

Specifically, what's lacking is the kind of critical thinking work that is so essential in such disciplines as the humanities, the social sciences, business and others.

We need you to overcome a prolonged period of congressional paralysis and polarization in order to address the country s malaise. We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.

Block thinkers on each side give aid and comfort to block thinkers on the other side, and with each exchange they pull us closer toward an abyss. So how can we stop this madness?

Block Thinking

Well, the so what? comes when start thinking about the same problem set up just a little bit differently.

With another idea.

Ataturk was a lateral thinker.

Labyrinth Mind mapping

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So it s a leap of imagination.

Reconsidering Man s Dominion

Then again, who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?

VYM View Your Mind

I could work them just by my thoughts.

Maintain rational thought.

So the same idea again.

He just doesn't seem to think very fast.

Alt. Rock

Alternative types of taxation

A little background For 10 years I've been trying to figure out how to hack civilization so that we can get long term thinking to be automatic and common instead of difficult and rare or in some cases, non existent.

It's another way of getting the intuition.

Fur coat, little things like this.

The Cooperative Alternative

Humans are so amazing how we think, our non linear approaches, our creativity, iterative hypotheses, all very difficult if possible at all for computers to do.

But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Map your mind

See, you have a mental model.

We own our minds.

Europe s Economic Groupthink

Smarter Thinking on Climate Change

Good intelligence from shore, so that you know what to expect when you see it.