(May 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm)ib.me.ub Wrote: I don't think it is fully understood how imagination and the mind works yet.
It doesn't need to be fully understood, we know enough. We know that the mind is limited and therefore the imagination, being a product of the mind, must also be limited.
Quote:So what if I was to imagine something, then later find out that this thing is true and has been proven or though of already, without prior knowledge of the subject matter. I wouldn't know what the subject matter was called (if konwn), but I would understand what it is, and perhaps how it works.
Yes you have a chance of devising for yourself the answer to a problem that someone else has already though of, and no you, will not know what they called it. Is this supposed to be surprising? It seems a bit of a non-factor to me.
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