Mind · Dynamics
Futurefold
Planning contracts toward immediate demands, leaving fewer distant possibilities in view
Definition
Mechanism
Immediate demands increasingly occupy planning, while possibilities and consequences farther ahead receive less consideration or drop from the effective horizon. The future held in view narrows even though more distant possibilities remain available. The contraction is relative to an earlier or otherwise relevant horizon, concerns what is actively considered rather than what is possible, and can be deliberate, temporarily appropriate or harmful.
Invariants
- Planning considers a narrower horizon than an earlier or otherwise relevant one.
- Immediate demands take part in the narrowing.
Risks
Failure modes
Short steps read as contraction
short execution steps are taken to show that the whole horizon narrowed.
External loss read as contraction
options removed by outside constraints are taken as a narrowed horizon.
Contraction read as error
every narrowing is treated as a mistake, including a deliberate one in an emergency.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
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