I am 100% on the same page with you and hold entirely the same belief.
I'm always looking for additional ways that allow the mind to integrate and utilize imagination through mental activities and learn new ways of thinking creatively.
There just seems to be unlimited ways to continuously unlock more natural ability and become increasingly aware of your own personal insight.
Additionally, I too agree that sometimes it seems difficult to turn something you are learning over to your imaginative faculties, while other times it seems completely automatic and spontaneous. But despite either situation, if imagination in anyway has a role to accompany learning, understanding is highly enriched, and sometimes even a domino effect of self-recursive enlightenment.
To any extent, I believe true understanding is always functioned by some portion of imagination. If we can physically touch or tangibly sense something, our mind engages with an immediate experience that renders a grasp towards some kind of understanding.
But in most cases, concepts to be learned are abstract, and I believe only imagination allows ourselves to journey to a place of "understanding", and utilize our senses to feel something intangible.
We can connect ourselves with reality in many ways, but imagination I believe is the hierarchal way to harmonize our senses and integrate experiences into understanding.
I do anticipate your research towards understanding imagination further with much interest, should you discover much of what has yet to be found.
zenbuddha98 < zenbuddha98%40yahoo.com">zenbuddha98
yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm convinced much as Win is that the imagination is the source of
much of our intelligence and understanding. It is there for much
more but understanding is a major part of it.
I'm going to be working on a project trying to understand
understanding even better. Honestly I think what my research will
yield is the realization yet again that what Win has presented is the
bulk of understanding.
There are definitely more functions involved in understanding than
just imagery. But the right images at the right time really bring
about greater understanding. It's true. Many things can be
understood without imagery, but add imagery and the understanding is
much better, frequently.
When you think about it we must have an imagination for much more
than just recreation or functions other than understanding. It must
also be given to us through natural selection or whatever process you
believe in order to facilitate greater understanding. The truth of
the matter is that the imagination is so vast, and so amazing, so
brilliant that it must have functions to facilitate greater
understanding.
It's not always easy to turn concepts into imaginations. But when
you do it's much easier to understand things. And the fact to keep
in mind is that the imagery might not at all be what you expected yet
it does bring about greater understanding. It can be totally
different than what you had originally anticipated.
My main interest is everything to do with the mind. There is such a
wealth of information out there that it's both difficult to know
where to begin as well as how to change so much of the information
into imagination. I'll probably get better at it with practice.
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