imagination Ideas CBC Paul Kennedy
imagination The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality
imagination Not just a mental process Our highest faculty Central to our perception and experience of reality
imagination Neuroscience MRI evidence When we perceive reality our brains use the same brain circuits for perception and imagination
imagination The number of business schools offering courses in imaginative thinking has doubled
imagination Is fantasy and imagination really apart from reality?
imagination Imagination is embodied!
imagination Sports and athletes Improvisation Imagination as patterns of possibilities
imagination I remain steadfast in my ideology. Margaret, have an open mind! It’s all relative. Al wins this one!
imagination We all have this wonderful hardware called the Creative Brain
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The imagination helps us to survive and to grow and become better and different people in the future
imagination To stimulate us To help us go into the unknown To explore, discover and encounter
imagination Central to everything we do
imagination Pieta by Michelangelo
imagination The Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein
imagination Imagination is more important than knowledge.
imagination Knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world.
imagination Imagination is the precursor of knowledge
imagination What if … I had a hair stylist?
imagination Knowledge or Imagination Which would you choose?
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Look at something in a different, unfiltered, meaningful way As if for the first time Crucial in all aspects of life
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Imaginative skill set Critical to business success Without it, business will fail Look at Blackberry!!! No longer met with derision
imagination Dang, I hate it when I’m wrong!
imagination Cognitive Revolution 1950’s Understand subjective, interpreted experiences to see how they are acting in the world
imagination Birth of Cognitive Sciences Perception, Imagination, Memory Paradigms to understand imagination
imagination Measuring brain states
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Particular brain activation stages Brain Sets (Mind sets) Change your perspectives Envisioned Brain Set
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Imagination as merely a mental, visual process
imagination Romantic Period Subjectivity and Imagination Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake Insight into truth beyond appearances
imagination Reason although important and useful, alone is inadequate Need another faculty to seek truth
imagination British empiricism Human is just a creature of nature, subject to sensory functions, stamped and impressed with data
imagination William Blake inverts view of British empiricism Mental things alone are real
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For Blake, British empiricism… Is this all there is? Is this the absolute truth? Is this what we worship?
imagination Only by imagination can the world be known
imagination Rather than more powerful telescopes and microscopes, what is needed is that the human mind should become more increasingly aware of its own creative activity
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imagination Produced by Alfred Guidolin Nipissing University EDUC 1526 © 2012 San Marco Productions Ain’t this creative?
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