“In the same way that the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky revealed the hidden unconscious biases of our minds, and indirectly ushered in the entirely new field of bias studies, it is time to acknowledge the vast mythopoetic or imaginative aspects of mind that shape our thinking and sense-making processes.”
“Broadly stated, the imagination has five steps: mimicry; abstraction/decoupling; recombination; expression; and social feedback.“
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“Popular culture recognizes only the fantasy version of artistic imagination and fails to appreciate that everyday conversation, daydreaming, map navigation, political strategizing, scientific hypothesising, moral reflection, field surgery, cooking, reading and lovemaking are all imaginative activities, too.”
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“Imagination, understood as the mind’s ur-operating system – the system within the system – generates our human biases, our visual communication grammar (also music, dance, etc), our political tribalism, our search for meaning, our scientific research programmes, and our virtual rehearsal space for social life.”
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“this is also the core of sense-making or meaning-making activity and, once recognised, we can see that imaginative work such as storytelling, image-making, song, dance and so on are some of the earliest and continually powerful forms of knowledge.”
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“Earlier humanities and social science scholars grasped the value of artistic education, but primarily as a bulwark against scientific reductionism, which they considered dehumanizing.”
Coach Pāṇini ®