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Is there only so much we can imagine?
What is the limit of our minds?

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Is there only so much we can imagine?

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Posted 07/20/09 - 08:25 AM:	#11
Imagination is limited to its expression. For instance, Einstein expressed his imagination in E=mc^2. If he had no way to express it then his imagination of the relation between energy and matter would have died with him.
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Posted 08/06/09 - 11:35 PM:	#12
PhilosophyArrow wrote: I'm new to this site, so please be patient with my reasoning. Constructive criticism is always welcome too. One morning I awoke with a passion to look at everything beautiful. I went online to look up some museums and located some art galleries. Long story short, I was disappointed. Not because of the art, but the averageness of it. Every photo, every scene, every portrait had been done before. There was nothing that stimulated my mind. I know that the universe is infinite, and there are things out there that we have never seen, but why have we not expanded our art to fit the unknown? Perhaps what I'm trying to ask is, are we not able to imagine what we have not seen? Many people can create creatures with scaly torsos and bird beaks, but never have we seen an unknown creation. Is this because we can not see in our mind what we have never seen before? Many children can have nightmares with horrible fears that torture them even when they awaken. Their nightmares exist only because of what their mind has perceived before. Therefore, parents are able to soothe them. However, because we can not imagine new things when we are conscious, does this reach our dreams? Are we imaginatively disabled? I am not sure I fully understand what you mean, but I will argue against what I think you mean. Are you trying to say that we lack creative thought? The ability to think new thoughts? Well as you may know throughout history many people have created their own ideas about different things and formed their own opinions and solutions to problems. However this always happened with a purpose. For example a very creative person in history is Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci had always new thoughts and new ways of looking at problems. He invented tanks, helicopters, parachutes and thought of many different ways of doing things. I believe that his imagination was the farthest a human mind has reached.

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