Written by Mathew Naismith
Note: I have inserted at the end of this post a further supplements to this post.
Imagination: Where does the imagination come from? Imagination like the speech & vision centres doesn’t have a centre or a part of the brain that it comes from, no region within the brain controls imagination but imagination is a huge part of our lives which can change somewhat from childhood to adulthood but of course not always. So what’s so special about imagination? Definition of imagination from Wikipedia: Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process. Also: But in reality, without knowledge, imagination cannot be developed.
Imagination: Where does the imagination come from? Imagination like the speech & vision centres doesn’t have a centre or a part of the brain that it comes from, no region within the brain controls imagination but imagination is a huge part of our lives which can change somewhat from childhood to adulthood but of course not always. So what’s so special about imagination? Definition of imagination from Wikipedia: Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process. Also: But in reality, without knowledge, imagination cannot be developed.
Now this is interesting, so imagination doesn’t use any of
the five senses to exist so how can it exist? Also imagination can’t exist
without knowledge so why do children have a much wider range of imagination to
adults if they are less knowledgeable, wouldn’t adults have a much wider range
of imagination? Yes they should if it is
based on human knowledge alone but it’s not just based on human knowledge I
believe otherwise children wouldn’t have much of an imagination period also
when we take into account that imagination doesn’t need any of the five senses
to exist we must wonder where it comes from. We have also got to wonder why
children have a greater range of imagination than adults. Do we as adults use imagination in a more
complex way which is driven by our own personal knowledge? Yes we do however
this still doesn’t account to why children are more imaginative. Does logic
kill off imagination as we become more knowledgeable? Yes it does & in this
process we imagine less because we then have a need to imagine things that make
more sense & are more logical so this explains why adults have a far less
range of imagination on average compared to children.
So logic kills off imagination but the question still
remains why do children have a vaster array of imagination to adults when
adults are supposed to be more knowledgeable, they can imagine anything being
real? The following should answer this question.
Logic: So as
adults we have killed off our childhood imaginations & turned it into
logic, so what? Wikipedia as stated previously: “Imagination helps make
knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating
experience and the learning process”. We
as a species & as individuals are always learning so this is actually
saying that the imagination is fundamentally important towards the learning
process but we don’t stop learning in adulthood? In actual fact we do, we stop
learning through imagination & turn it into just logic, in other words we
take on one learning process by replacing imagination with logic alone.
Imagination depicts all learning processes but logic is only of the process of
logic, one learning process.
Imagination gives us a huge array or possibilities instead
of being limited to possibilities of logic alone. A thousand years ago it was
totally illogical to think man could ever fly especially in the crafts we have
today & in actual fact if you made this public you could have been put to
death in saying so in certain counties & provinces as this made no logical sense
at the time but we know better now. We must ask a question here, would have
flight like many things have been possible without illogical imagination? The
answer of course is no so by replacing imagination altogether with logic
thought is this going to be more beneficial than letting our imaginations soar?
The answer again would have to be no obviously. So in actual fact we could be
stifling our conscious awareness by replacing our imagination with logic alone
& that is exactly what I think we are doing. By thinking through one
thought process as logic instead of letting ourselves soar through unlimited
imagination we are in fact stifling our conscious awareness obviously as
previously stated that “Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving
problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process”
so we should be asking here what is thinking within the logic process actually
stopping us from learning? That is a very good question indeed & one that
can’t be answered until we stop thinking in one thought process. Just imagine
what we are stopping ourselves from knowing!!
We could say here that scientists aren’t imaginative because
they are all about logic but that’s not true. For a scientist to even think of
evaluating anything they must first see/imagine an outcome, yes they are still
deductively formulating using logical thinking but an imaginative outcome is
needed at first for any action to be taken so one must logically imagine an
outcome first otherwise what would be the logical purpose of conducting such
evaluations in the first place. Successful science is all about a balance of
logic & imagination I believe. I also believe the reason why some
scientists are more successful than other is the more successful scientists are
the more connected to the collective consciousness they are through
imagination, they foresee/imagine an outcome prior to completion of any said
task. So is this saying consciousness is unlimited imagination? Yes most
definitely.
Consciousness: I’m
going to theorise the reason why children have a wider range of imagination
from adults is not just because we become logical thinkers but by becoming
solely logical thinkers we become detached even more from the collective
consciousness & the more logical in thought we are the more detached we
become. We have also got to take into consideration here that imagination
doesn’t use any of the five senses to exist either & of course the sixth
sense also relates to being more connected to the collective consciousness so
what does all this mean? This means we are imaginative even before we have the
chance of gaining human knowledge but it still takes knowledge to imagine, we
can’t possibly imagine without knowledge & this is where the collective
consciousness comes into it as it’s a vast array of knowledge far vaster than
human knowledge will ever be so no wonder why children have a wider range of
imagination to adults, they are more connected.
This brings us to the question, is that all we imagine real considering
it’s all a part of the collective consciousness? Nothing of what we think isn’t
unreal within consciousness, in other words yes it’s all real because it’s
totally impossible to think of anything that isn’t already a part of the
collective consciousness. If it’s of the collective consciousness it has to be
real in one way or another & certainly not necessarily of this reality
either. A lot of spiritually aware people consider this reality of being an
illusion therefore unreal, they are right to a point because it’s not the whole
of us only a portion of whom we are however just because it’s only a portion of
who we are doesn’t make it unreal or an illusion in my mind.
“Think about this for a moment, try to think of something
that isn’t a part of the collective consciousness, let your imagination
completely go………….everything you have just imagined is already a part of the
collective consciousness whatever you could have imagined”…….Love Mathew
Related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination
Supplement: The
amended supplement below is in relation to a discussion on atheism &
spirituality’s which I have inserted here because of its relevance to this
post.
I have just researched & wrote up recently on
imagination v logic & found that if we just used logic one couldn’t
perceive what the outcome would be until proven to be true through logic which
hinders the research however when a scientist like Einstein uses imagination
they can imagine what the results could be before they are logically proven
which allows for a better outcome. “Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles
the world”- Albert Einstein. By using imagination & having faith within
their own research which can take years the scientific results are far greater.
Indeed, Einstein himself put it thusly:
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental
laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the
order lying behind the appearance.
Max Planck said: “Again and again the imaginary plan on
which one attempts to build up order breaks down and then we must try another.
This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable.
The pure rationalist has no place here”.
They are talking about intuition which a lot of spiritually
aware people also take heed of & the purist rationalist has no place here
means it’s not all just based on logic as you like to claim but faith &
imagination as well.
Related link:
nice one..
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