Humans commit and act despite imperfect information about the future

Evidence

The promise of the promise and the will to will run deeper than these deformities. They remind us of that place again where we humans heal the breach between the known and the unknowable, navigating the seas of uncertainty in our vessels of shared promises. In the real world of human endeavor, there is no perfect information and no perfect rationality. Life inclines us to take action and to make commitments even when the future is unknown. Anyone who has brought a child into the world or has otherwise given his or her heart in love knows this to be true. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1063

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An opportunistic, insincere commitment can still bind future behavior — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 243; Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 154; Deliberate action requires partial but not total foresight of consequences — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 785 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Deliberate action requires partial but not total foresight of consequences #expands (0.95) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 785
• An opportunistic, insincere commitment can still bind future behavior #exemplifies (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 243
• The speculative subject accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty #corroborates (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 25
• Humans can override environmental dictates through symbolic future-thinking #corroborates (0.70) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 154