Imagination
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| - | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | '''Imagination''' is accepted as the innate ability and [[process]] to invent partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in [[psychology]] for the process of reviving in the [[mind]] [[perception|percepts]] of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary [[language]], some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "[[imaging]]" or "[[imagery]]" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "[[mind's eye]]". |
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| + | One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination is that it allowed [[consciousness|conscious]] beings to solve problems (and hence increase an individual's [[fitness (biology)|fitness]]) by use of mental [[simulation]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | ||
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Imagination is accepted as the innate ability and process to invent partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye".
One hypothesis for the evolution of human imagination is that it allowed conscious beings to solve problems (and hence increase an individual's fitness) by use of mental simulation.[1] [Apr 2007]
