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Wed 20 Aug, 2008 03:54 pm
when you imagine something, like a simple tree, you appear to "perceive" it. however it is not perceived in the same way as you perceive an actually existing tree, rather it is what you call a "mental image". how does this occur, can you say the imagination exists? if it does exist in the conventional sense of "existence" then we cannot be purely physical things I don't think, but I find it hard to believe in a non-physical "soul" or "mind". so specifically, what is the imagination?
Perception is an autonomic response to sensory input. Imagination is an extrapolation of that perception as a response to cognition.
As such, almost everything you think and feel is imagination, it's only the degree to which it is divergent from raw perception which matters.
Thats some thing 2 look forward 2 u never know.
you will find it north & south by east & west of the intellect
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