(May 3, 2011 at 10:12 pm)ib.me.ub Wrote:theVOID Wrote:Imagination isn't unlimited, it's limited to the cognitive abilities of the sentient creatures in question.
Thats a big call. Wouldn't we need to understand the cognitive abilities of the beings involved first. As in, we don't yet know the full abilities of the human mind.
I don't see how human imagination could possibly have a set upper limit. Do you think there is a point where comprhension evaporates. As in, are there things we will never be able to understand or think. I just say that in the context of human learning ability and evolution of the mind.
If our minds are limited then our imagination, being a product of and being contained within the mind, is also necessarily limited.
Close your eyes and imagine the house that you live in from the front, can you picture the whole house at once, or are you limited to a subset of the house? Do you always see the color of the house, the windows, the roof, the door etc, or do you have to focus on one of these objects to gain the color? When you focus on the color do you lose focus of other parts of the house?
You shouldn't be able to picture both the sum of the features and the colors for every individual part, that is because our mind is limited and our imagination is a product of that limited mind.
There are a number of limits, such as the total amount of information that we can have in our brains, the amount of information we can have in our conscious minds at any one moment, the complexity of any given composite etc.
Quote:We don't stop learning,
But there is a limit to the amount of information we can retain. Often one thing learned is at the expense of something forgotten.
Quote:our collective knowledge keeps growing as people think of new things, prove the ideas and implimente them into society as the truth.
What does collective knowledge have to do with it?
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