One of Richard Slaughter’s central innovations has been to bring the other half of reality to the field of Futures Studies. Slaughter has argued for the inner dimension of ideas, developmental levels, and mentation to be as central – if not more so – than the technical, systemic and concrete reality the field was founded upon. In this article I will present an overview of Slaughter’s central innovations that have carried the field towards a more Integral age. I will also propose a way forward for Integral Futures that is dependent on a simple heuristic model that can help simplify the complexity of Integral Theory.

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携火：前瞻之道

理查德·斯劳特的核心创新之一是将现实的另一半带入未来研究领域。Slaughter 认为，思想、发展水平和心理的内在维度与该领域所依据的技术、系统和具体现实一样重要——如果不是更重要的话。在本文中，我将概述 Slaughter 的核心创新，这些创新已将该领域推向了更加一体化的时代。我还将为 Integral Futures 提出一种方法，它依赖于一个简单的启发式模型，可以帮助简化 Integral Theory 的复杂性。