The wounded and the dead

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I think to experience such horror as losing a child through imagination alone, I'd actually have to believe my imagination in order to truly feel the horror. In other words I'd have to be deluded.

You can dream things that aren't real. You could dream you had a child. You could imagine in your dream what that felt like. Total immersion in imagination in this way bypasses belief (actual fact). You believe it because you experience it (though imagination) to be so.

at some point, a limit is reached, whether it is thought there is or not. Because we are, as I said: Physical, limited, evolved, finite beings...so we therefore have a limit to our emotions.

I think what space emotional distress occupies isn't exclusive. After several traumas people can feel numb at the pain which is a natural cut off. Psychological anomalies such as transference are also natural release valves.

The imagination certainly isn't limited physically because the two aren't related. ie The storage capacity of your brain doesn't relate to the extreme's you can imagine. It is also possible to train yourself to recall memories more accurately/ store more: Memory Palace.