The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination | Anna Abraham (Editor)

Why it is included:

While "Creativity" is about producing external results, "Imagination" is about the internal simulation of new realities.

This volume serves as the necessary companion to the first handbook, focusing on the neuroscience of the "Default Mode Network" and counterfactual thinking—the brain's ability to ask "What if?"

Before we can terraform a planet or redesign an economy, we must be able to run high-fidelity simulations in the mind's eye.

This book explains the cognitive machinery that allows humans to decouple from the present moment and inhabit the future, providing the scientific basis for all visionary leadership.