Are you equating "imagination" with "comparing alternate possibilities"? Because computers and lots of lower animals can do that.Before developing an imagination beings are unable make decisions based on the future. — Yadoula
(I really don’t know what I’m meant to do with this information. Its probably obvious that I never studied psychology or anything. I’m just a poker player from the streets who mapped out the mind. Any advice be much appreciated?) — Yadoula
If a girl spends her whole life in a black and white room, and then experiences colour she is overjoyed. Why is this?
Her body remembers colour from her ancestors past lives. The body has many lessons it’s been ready to teach the conscious mind about colour. Like: Red is scary. — Yadoula
Without an imagination you can’t plan an offensive, or calculate strategies to avoid potential dangers. — Yadoula
All creatures without an imagination [are lacking] the ability to imagine potential future scenarios — Yadoula
without an imagination the creature can’t: design complex strategies. Can’t percieve how it’s own actions will effect external phenomenon. It can’t comprehend how to effect the actions of other decision making beings. — Yadoula
On the day this spider evolves to have an imagination, it will be able to plan the future — Yadoula
You could say that the whole reason we have a conscious mind is TEACH the body how to better strategise. — Yadoula
Any explanation of intelligence that doesnt understand conscioussness is not an explanation, only a superficial description. — Joshs
In order to understand consciousness, it is necessary to recognize the inextricable interdependence of subjective and objective aspects of all experiencing of a world. All understanding takes place and organizes itself relative to a background field. There is no meaning without this relational structure of figure-ground and this is the meaning of consciousness. Intelligence has no sense without meaning and meaning has no senses outside of conscious processes of relationality. We can talk about dispositions, capacities ad potentialities that are latent in a person, but intelligence is only discerned via meaningful , intentional behavior. Intelligence has to manifest itself via the constructions of conscious intentions. Otherwise it remains a latent potentiality. — Joshs
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