1. imagination Ideas CBC Paul Kennedy

2. imagination  The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality

4. imagination  Not just a mental process  Our highest faculty  Central to our perception and experience of reality

5. imagination  Neuroscience  MRI evidence  When we perceive reality our brains use the same brain circuits for perception and imagination

6. imagination  The number of business schools offering courses in imaginative thinking has doubled

7. imagination  Is fantasy and imagination really apart from reality?

8. imagination  Imagination is embodied!

9. imagination  Sports and athletes  Improvisation  Imagination as patterns of possibilities

10. imagination I remain steadfast in my ideology. Margaret, have an open mind! It’s all relative. Al wins this one!

11. imagination We all have this wonderful hardware called the Creative Brain

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13. The imagination helps us to survive and to grow and become better and different people in the future

14. imagination  To stimulate us  To help us go into the unknown  To explore, discover and encounter

15. imagination Central to everything we do

16. imagination Pieta by Michelangelo

17. imagination The Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein

18. imagination Imagination is more important than knowledge.

19. imagination Knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world.

20. imagination Imagination is the precursor of knowledge

21. imagination What if … I had a hair stylist?

22. imagination  Knowledge or Imagination  Which would you choose?

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24.  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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26.  Imaginative skill set  Critical to business success  Without it, business will fail  Look at Blackberry!!!  No longer met with derision

27. imagination Dang, I hate it when I’m wrong!

28. imagination  Cognitive Revolution 1950’s  Understand subjective, interpreted experiences to see how they are acting in the world

29. imagination  Birth of Cognitive Sciences Perception, Imagination, Memory  Paradigms to understand imagination

30. imagination  Measuring brain states

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32.  Particular brain activation stages  Brain Sets (Mind sets)  Change your perspectives  Envisioned Brain Set

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34.  Imagination as merely a mental, visual process

35. imagination  Romantic Period 1789-1830  Subjectivity and Imagination  Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake  Insight into truth beyond appearances

36. imagination  Reason although important and useful, alone is inadequate  Need another faculty to seek truth

37. imagination  British empiricism Human is just a creature of nature, subject to sensory functions, stamped and impressed with data

38. imagination  William Blake inverts view of British empiricism  Mental things alone are real

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40.  For Blake, British empiricism… Is this all there is? Is this the absolute truth? Is this what we worship?

41. imagination  Only by imagination can the world be known

42. 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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