Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Terry expects and encourages people to disagree with him.
If we all thought the exact same way, we wouldn't really learn anything new from one another.
Tammy
Shhhhhhhhh......our little secret!
APOPHENIA.....how has it (how DOES it) affect your perception of the world?
by Terry 25 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
LOL.
Syl
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Terry
Apophenia.
Imagination and creativity. We aren't bound like computers are.
Apparently it worked for him:
Detecting a connection which is deliberately inserted is functional insight.
So you believe in God, now?
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I use to be a chessplayer.
Chessplayers need imagination to "mock up" positions that don't yet exist. They are temporary imaginary test cases.
At the point where imagination fails---you make your play and move.
The response of the opponent is the actual test of your decision and the outcome of the game.
Sometimes a chessplayer will experience something called "chess-blindness." You see a connection, a move, an outcome that just ISN'T THERE.
You are punished! Checkmate.
Distinguishing between imaginary test cases and actually existing connections is the difference between genius and insanity.
The real world proves which is which.
Some people look at world events and see Armageddon. Others see human nature as usual.
How you live your live IN RELATION to those connections (and imagined outcomes) determines the quality of life you will experience.
Einstein's insights and discoveries were the result of thought experiments.
Thought Experiments
First published Sat Dec 28, 1996; substantive revision Sun Mar 25, 2007
Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things. We need only list a few of the well-known thought experiments to be reminded of their enormous influence and importance in the sciences: Newton's bucket, Maxwell's demon, Einstein's elevator, Heisenberg's gamma-ray microscope, Schrödinger's cat. The same can be said for their importance in philosophy. Much of ethics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind is based firmly on the results of thought experiments. Again, a short list makes this evident: Thompson's violinist, Searle's Chinese room, Putnam's twin earth, Parfit's people who split like an amoeba. The 17th century saw some of its most brilliant practitioners in Galileo, Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz. And in our own time, the creation of quantum mechanics and relativity are almost unthinkable without the crucial role played by thought experiments. Contemporary philosophy, even more than the sciences, would be severely impoverished without them.
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BurnTheShips
How you live your live IN RELATION to those connections (and imagined outcomes) determines the quality of life you will experience.
I agree.
Let me expand the Einstein quote:
"Imagination is everything. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." Albert Einstein
And let me toss a few more of his chestnuts into the pot:
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
Relativity is a funny name for a scientific theory, isn't it. No absolutes, as it were.
Quantum theory, on the other hand, is so wonderfully messed up that we are forced to rely on interpretations.
BTS
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VoidEater
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Sometimes perceived patterns really are patterns, just as coincidences can be coincidences.
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Terry
Imagination is useful for entertainment and when it leads to practical discoveries in the real world.
Confusing imaginary things with real things is insanity.
The man talking to you on your TV screen is only talking to you if your set is plugged in.
