"The revolution was beautiful, but nobody imagined the consequences".
The apocalypses are imagined, the consequences speculative, the new world orders thankfully without real world power.
The more participants imagined the consequences of their choices, the more they were able to be patient in order to receive the greater reward.
Quian Quiroga found neurons in the human brain that respond to abstract concepts but ignore particular details, and, spurred by the way Borges imagined the consequences of remembering every detail but being incapable of abstraction, he began a search for the origins of Funes.
"Iranian leaders never imagined the consequences when they seized the sailors off Iranian or Iraqi waters," said Mehrdad Serjooie, a political analyst at the Center for Strategic Research, part of group run by Ali Akhbar Rafsanjani, the former president and a challenger to Mr. Ahmadinejad.
And mistakes can happen by accident, sometimes out of negligence, or sometimes because no-one could quite have imagined the consequences of actions that they decided to take.
