"There is no such thing as predicting the future!" says Sally in Woody Allen's You mill meet a tall dark stranger. But people have go at it nevertheless. Sally's mother, her husband and even herself fantasize about meeting the stranger of their dreams. "If you can see into the future, how come you didn't know I was gonna jump out a building and land on top of you?" asks Boris to Helena (Whatever works, Woody Allen). Because "humans have the ubiquitous capacity to imagine, plan for, and shape the future (even if we do frequently get it wrong)" (Suddendorf, 2006, p. 1006). And they do so for various reasons.
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