https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/categories/imagination/ en Sat, 02 Nov 2024 05:53:23 -0700 https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/2024/11/02/what-do-you.html Sat, 02 Nov 2024 05:53:23 -0700 http://mbkriegh.micro.blog/2024/11/02/what-do-you.html <p>What do you think of this idea of imagination…</p> <blockquote> <p>Imagination is not, as it is sometimes conceived, the capacity to conjure the unreal, but, for the first time, to see the real – the real that is, for reasons of deeply ingrained habit, no longer present to us. … To see is not just to register sense-data, but to see ‘into’ the life of what is seen; and ‘through’ it to the greater picture that lies beyond it, is implicit in it, and makes sense of it in terms of the totality of experience. <strong>(Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)</strong></p> </blockquote>