03-12-2012, 08:05 PM
(03-12-2012, 03:01 PM)Pickle Wrote:(03-12-2012, 02:29 PM)Ankh Wrote: What is imagination? This question has been interesting to me, and I've had many thoughts about that. Is imagination to take a thought? And then create something with it?
A person blind at birth cannot imagine an image. This scientifically shows us that all thought/consideration/memory is a patchwork of previous sensory recording.
I would think that once we have an imprint of something, we have access to all previous imprints of the same nature. This may place importance on the width of experience itself, combined with the importance of meditation as a way to connect things together, reorganizing them into (new to us) constructs/patterns that unlock the ability to connect to other "like" patterns.
Almost like we have to create a doorway by reconstructing recorded constructs into a key. On the other side of the veil maybe we don't have the nervous system available for "reconstruction", and only have the copies of experience.
I'm rambling.
How can we know? How can we know what this other person is seeing or not seeing? It isn't our mind. This person hears us ask "can you imagine what sight looks like" and the person replies "no" but if you didn't know what a palm tree was and yet were looking right at one you would answer the question "do you know what a palm tree is" with a "no" even though you can see it right in front of you. Therefor how can we truly "know" if the people in these tests aren't actually seeing things and not realizing it?
-Conifer17-
Peace and giggles