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The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality

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Not just a mental process

Our highest faculty

Central to our perception and experience of reality

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Neuroscience

MRI evidence

When we perceive reality our brains use the same brain circuits for perception and imagination

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The number of business schools offering courses in imaginative thinking has doubled

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Is fantasy and imagination really apart from reality?

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Imagination is embodied!

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Sports and athletes

Improvisation

Imagination as patterns of possibilities

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I remain steadfast in my

ideology.

Margaret, have an open mind!It’s all relative.

Al wins this one!

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We all have this wonderful hardware called the Creative Brain

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The imagination helps us to survive and to grow and become better and different people in the future

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To stimulate us

To help us go into the unknown

To explore, discover and encounter

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Central to everything we do

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Pieta byMichelangelo

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The Theory of Relativity

Albert Einstein

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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Knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world.

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Imagination is the precursor of knowledge

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What if …

I had a hair stylist?

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Knowledge or Imagination

Which would you choose?

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Look at something in a different, unfiltered, meaningful way

As if for the first time

Crucial in all aspects of life

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Imaginative skill set

Critical to business success

Without it, business will fail

Look at Blackberry!!!

No longer met with derision

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Dang,

I hate it when I’m wrong!

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Cognitive Revolution 1950’s

Understand subjective, interpreted experiences to see how they are acting in the world

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Birth of Cognitive Sciences

Perception, Imagination, Memory

Paradigms to understand imagination

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Measuring brain states

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Particular brain activation stages

Brain Sets (Mind sets)

Change your perspectives

Envisioned Brain Set

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Imagination as merely a mental, visual process

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Romantic Period 1789-1830

Subjectivity and Imagination

Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake

Insight into truth beyond appearances

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Reason although important and useful, alone is inadequate

Need another faculty to seek truth

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British empiricism

Human is just a creature of nature, subject to sensory functions, stamped and impressed with data

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William Blake inverts view of British empiricism

Mental things alone are real

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For Blake, British empiricism…Is this all there is?Is this the absolute truth?Is this what we worship?

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Only by imagination can the world be known

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Rather than more powerful telescopes and microscopes, what is needed is that the human mind should become more increasingly aware of its own creative activity

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