imagination and rationality |
Alan Dix Lancaster University, vfridge and aQtive alan@hcibook.com www.hcibook.com/alan/ |
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This is a short series of essays concerning the relationship between imagination, rationality and story. These are work in progress, so please feel free to comment!
imagination
and rationality
(draft
essay, PDF, 97K, last updated 2/1/2003)
This looks at
the way in which both rationality and imagination acts as a point of meeting
between different kinds of intelligence. Whilst rational thinking does this
by abstracting the understanding of different intelligences, imagination does
this linking by making virtual experiences apparently sensed and thus allows
different intelligences to 'see' the imagined experience.
vivid
imagination
(draft
essay, PDF, 52K, last updated 2/1/2003)
How is it that
we have developed imagination? This essay looks at possible origins of our ability
to create very vivid imagination that seems to feed deep semantic imaginings
into sensual experience.