“Use your imagination.” Everyone has been told this at least once in their lives if not many. It implies that doing so is easy, as if there was an on or off switch. In reality, using your imagination is far more complex than that. I personally have a big imagination and I use it a lot. I don’t know much about it though. The Imagination is an intricate instrument that is considered to be used in almost everything. I find it fascinating that people can come up with brand new things whether it’s magical lands or scientific hypotheses, by only using their minds. So how exactly does imagination work?
When you use your imagination you are using many parts of your brain. There has been a recent study at Dartmouth college to see what happened in the …show more content…
Leslie Stevenson, an Honorary Reader in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, wrote a paper listing twelve concepts of imagination. While all of them are important and meaningful the ones that stuck out to me are, “8. The ability to think of anything at all. 11. The ability to appreciate things that are expensive or revelatory of the meaning of human life. And 12. The ability to create works of art that express something deep about the meaning of life.” Number 8 stuck out to me because it is something that I had read in previous research as well. The idea that imagination gives us the capability to think at all is a big thing. Imagine not being able to think. That’s quite odd and scary. Number 11 stuck out to me because it brought up appreciating things. There are many times in life that everyone, including myself, forget to recognize the things we have and the things we can achieve in life. The specificity of human life reminds me of how our capability, our thoughts, are far more advanced than anything else. Finally, number 12 stuck out because it used “something deep about the meaning of life”. The meaning of life is a ginormous thought and due to the imagination we can not only acknowledge it, but we can question it and attempt to answer or explain
When you use your imagination you are using many parts of your brain. There has been a recent study at Dartmouth college to see what happened in the …show more content…
Leslie Stevenson, an Honorary Reader in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, wrote a paper listing twelve concepts of imagination. While all of them are important and meaningful the ones that stuck out to me are, “8. The ability to think of anything at all. 11. The ability to appreciate things that are expensive or revelatory of the meaning of human life. And 12. The ability to create works of art that express something deep about the meaning of life.” Number 8 stuck out to me because it is something that I had read in previous research as well. The idea that imagination gives us the capability to think at all is a big thing. Imagine not being able to think. That’s quite odd and scary. Number 11 stuck out to me because it brought up appreciating things. There are many times in life that everyone, including myself, forget to recognize the things we have and the things we can achieve in life. The specificity of human life reminds me of how our capability, our thoughts, are far more advanced than anything else. Finally, number 12 stuck out because it used “something deep about the meaning of life”. The meaning of life is a ginormous thought and due to the imagination we can not only acknowledge it, but we can question it and attempt to answer or explain