Greene reaches for Newton to capture why present-moment perspective is always partial: the truth of a situation reveals itself only in retrospect, once enough consequences have unfolded. This is why farsighted thinking matters — you cannot wait for time to teach you what time will teach you. You have to simulate the retrospective view while still in the present, which is exactly what consequential imagination does.
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