Coach Pāṇini ®Dec 3, 2024
“From the time of Sigmund #Freud and Carl #Jung and to our present System 1 theory of fast, instinctual cognition, #psychology has acknowledged and explored the submerged irrational aspects of mind. But this has had little impact on #education. The pre-rational mind is treated as a liability rather than a resource to be cultivated.”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-we-need-a-new-kind-of-education-imagination-studies
Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays

We need a new kind of approach to learning that shifts imagination from the periphery to the foundation of all knowledge

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Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Dec 3, 2024

“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.”

#sensemaking #bias #imaginology

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Dec 3, 2024

“Broadly stated, the imagination has five steps: mimicry; abstraction/decoupling; recombination; expression; and social feedback.“

#imagination #mimicry #abstraction #recombination #expression #feedback

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Dec 3, 2024

“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.”

#culture #imagination #conversation #daydreaming #politics #STEM #introspection #cooking #reading

Show threadJohnW

@paninid

I think you covered 3 categories of imagination in this one post! 😀

Fantastical - furthest from reality.
Artistic - Kind of a bridge that stretches the boundaries of hypothesis.
Hypothetical - mental analysis of real-world data

Dec 3, 2024 at 3:39amWeb