What I would like to do is to look at some properties of the human imagination in the light of known physics. Although not real, we can use the imagination to defy all the laws of logic and statistics. I can imagine myself flying to the moon, flapping my arms, while rolling dice and getting lucky 7, 1,000,000,000 times in a row. This is not real. However, the output of the imagination, does not have to confirm to logic, probability or any know law of nature. It defines a unique output state.
The imagination can also be used another way, which is real. It allows a portal to the future in physical reality. I can picture building a new house in my imagination. Once this image is cast into stone or reality, the future will start to appear where my imagination set up a placeholder in space-time, but broken up at the pace at which I can use my energy. This action is sort of like a white blood cell. To move in space and time, it sends out a finger-like process and then grows into this finger, moving to the future. We can create out own reality in the imagination, which can become a self for filling finger process to a future we expect to see.
Let me change directions and approach this from another angle. Say we are an advanced civilization that is very logical and statistical. Since we have all the laws and relationship needed for prediction there is no need for imagination. One day we come upon this creature who has that imagination thing.
The things in his imagination, are odd, since they do not follow the laws of logic and probability like the rest of this world. That brain, via its frontal lobe, is generating output that does not have to be consistent with our laws. This zone of the brain is composed of extremely delicate micro-circuitry. The brain and circuitry follows the laws and terms of the neurons firing, but the output of this firing is different in that it does not have to follow any known laws, yet it constantly forms stories that seem connected and continuous. The output on the visualizer is rolling the dice a billion times and all are sevens. It is like a law breaker generator.
For example, Einsteins theory of relativity did not follow from observation of his time or from logic based on observation, nor did it stem from rolling dice. Yet his imagination sent out a finger process to the future onto which would grow a theory that would take years to materialize. There was a detachments from known cause and effect, space-time, and probability, all from this advanced neural circuitry, which outputted something out of time and space.
We tend to say this was in the imagination, which is for kids, as though that alone explains how this neural device can generate such lawless output. In everyone's opinion could the brain's frontal lobe generate a type of portal state that is outside the known laws, since the output seems to say just that? There is no real answer but this is fun to speculate.
The imagination can also be used another way, which is real. It allows a portal to the future in physical reality. I can picture building a new house in my imagination. Once this image is cast into stone or reality, the future will start to appear where my imagination set up a placeholder in space-time, but broken up at the pace at which I can use my energy. This action is sort of like a white blood cell. To move in space and time, it sends out a finger-like process and then grows into this finger, moving to the future. We can create out own reality in the imagination, which can become a self for filling finger process to a future we expect to see.
Let me change directions and approach this from another angle. Say we are an advanced civilization that is very logical and statistical. Since we have all the laws and relationship needed for prediction there is no need for imagination. One day we come upon this creature who has that imagination thing.
The things in his imagination, are odd, since they do not follow the laws of logic and probability like the rest of this world. That brain, via its frontal lobe, is generating output that does not have to be consistent with our laws. This zone of the brain is composed of extremely delicate micro-circuitry. The brain and circuitry follows the laws and terms of the neurons firing, but the output of this firing is different in that it does not have to follow any known laws, yet it constantly forms stories that seem connected and continuous. The output on the visualizer is rolling the dice a billion times and all are sevens. It is like a law breaker generator.
For example, Einsteins theory of relativity did not follow from observation of his time or from logic based on observation, nor did it stem from rolling dice. Yet his imagination sent out a finger process to the future onto which would grow a theory that would take years to materialize. There was a detachments from known cause and effect, space-time, and probability, all from this advanced neural circuitry, which outputted something out of time and space.
We tend to say this was in the imagination, which is for kids, as though that alone explains how this neural device can generate such lawless output. In everyone's opinion could the brain's frontal lobe generate a type of portal state that is outside the known laws, since the output seems to say just that? There is no real answer but this is fun to speculate.
