future-thoughts

Mood: upbeat
Listening to: cars pass in the street

I just heard an amazing talk by the former head of AngloAmerican, Clem Sunter.  A great, if not unusual stroyteller, he's an entertaining and clearly gifted man.

He basically predicts the future of business or whatever by thinking up scenarios and then attaching a probability of them happening to them.  So he thinks of the future but lives very much in the present.

Herein lies the rub.  Upon review I realised that my first entry to this blog sounds mighty pretentious, although it's not meant to be.  There are parallels between what I said and what this chap does.  He predicts events that can either be, or not be a reality of the future.  The future reality created in his head is very much alive and very much as real as what is happening outside today.  It leaves an impression, or 'footprint' if you will on his mind.  After all, he can remember these scenarious even though they have not happened, and most never will occur, being replaced by another 'reality'.

I am not really sure how to go about making this sound like sense, but somewhere in there is an idea, or concept, or something that will reveal itself in due course.

Mood: Happy
Listening to: Café de Afrique

If I am really honest, it's all about me: the way I perceive, my self-indulgence and a yearning to contribute to something.

What? Perhaps the human condition, or uncondition.  What's going to happen in the future and why it probably is going to turn out all inside-out and twisted.

I want to know what people think about.  Is thinking an end to itself? When people who think about 'thinking' are thinking about other things, what are thinking about?

Where are 'we'?  Who are 'we'? What is real, if anything at all?  Is dreaming another reality, but a reality nonetheless?  It's where we can exerience the same emotions after all, and what are memories if not just emotions wrapped up in chemicals.  Who can tell if a memory is a dream or something that 'happened'.  Does it matter and who would care?

I am not seeking answers because I don't necessarily believe there are any.  I just want to know what other people think about all this.