ABSTRACT
Proficient mental-modelling is reliant on the analytical architecture of the mind/brain which orchestrates System 1 and System 2 reasoning. This requires a certain cognitive choreography to optimise results. Policymaking is the process of guiding society away from bad outcomes and toward good ones. Predicting outcomes as a consequence of policy made is a difficult proposition. In this instance, a good policy outcome is one that prevents dangerous climate change, which is in the interest of both current and future generations. A better understanding of how the human brain works, and how mental models are formed, would help to achieve a global acceptance of uniform climate change policy. The need for people to be System 2 reasoners and thinkers with an aim to accurately mental-modelling the future has critical implications for democracy and the majority. One would hope that the end-state is a higher state of consciousness–a return to the state of nature but without the savagery.
