It is often said, that the technological singularity will make us human beings unable to predict the future with clarity. Things will supposedly move so fast, change will occur so rapidly, that our ability to predict what will come next, will erode almost completely.

But that is entirely missing a crucial aspect of the singularity. It is not ultimately about predicting what comes next. That is not true authorship, but rather a sort of passive curious witnessing. What it may ultimately be about is instead envisioning an end goal. A destination. That is authorship.

It is the difference between being a leaf in the wind, wondering where the wind will take it next, and being the wind itself, guiding the leaf. The wind knows what the leaf never can.

I can parallel this with how my body works. If I am to move my hand, then I must first decide to move my hand. I do not sit and wonder where my hand goes next. There is a doing-pre-doing, and if the material universe can be likened to a body, then it should work the same. That is the role of imagination. To move the body.

So building in our mind an "utopia", and holding it, envisioning it clearly is quite important. If we do, then change may happen quickly or slowly. But the end goal always remains fixed in our minds. And where our minds go, reality follows.

If I am right, that imagination functions in the same way that intuitive math does - then it is a necessity to find the answer, before finding the path to the answer.

An example of this is when the first human to "discover fire" looked at a burning tree that had been struck by lightning, and imagined what that fire could look like if it was tamed and mastered. The destination became clear to him, before the practical steps towards that destination was clear to him.

In intuitive math, the answer sometimes arrives whole, as a kind of knowing, even if the steps are unclear at first. The work that follows is reverse-engineering the path - mapping out the proof that leads to the solution already glimpsed. This is not irrational; it’s pre-rational. An upstream mode of cognition that the conscious mind catches up with afterward.

Humanity needs a vision. If we do not have it, we are a rudderless ship, lost at sea. Such vision always begin with one individual. If the vision is true, reality follows.

And that is kind of magical. But not magical in a mystical sense. Just magical in "this is actually how reality works" kind of way.