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» paper_turtle - Imagination

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What I found fascinating is van Lommel's ideas about the function of DNA.
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Phil wrote:
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The more complicated our vocabulary, the more inexhaustible our imagination. I think there is a correlation between the two--vocabulary and imagination.
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One function of imagination is the ability to project results of an action which has not yet been started. For example, you want to put a box on the top shelf of your closet. You imagine the box in that location, and conclude its a bad idea 'cause it might fall.
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Chimpanzees utilize imagination to invent tools to help them reach termites or crack nuts with stones.
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Very young children have such vivid imaginations that they will fight over who owns a completely imaginary object. Both my children (at around age 3 or 4) had invisible playmates, and both "saw" them in great detail.
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I think imagination is one of those functions which is helped by use of words, but I don't think words are not essential to its devleopment or exercise.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle

-- posted by paper_turtle