why is imagination important?

Answer 1

imagination is like fire and money: bad master, good slave

imagination can be harmless [golden mountain], creative [what if we has an explosion in a box, and had one side of the box moveable, so the explosion would move the moveable side, and the moveable side was attached to something so that the explosion moved the something?] or dangerous

eg, we imagine nonexistence, and then we frighten ourselves with the idea of the existence of nonexistence, although nonexistence cannot exist, and thus create the fear of death, which we assume is nonexistence, which cant exist [by definition]

unfortunately we can imagine selfcontradictory things

eg, free will - a will or choice is an event, a happening, and all events have to have causes, ie, they cannot be free from causes - so free will actually means: an uncaused event, which is an impossibility - it seems that when we imagine things we are forgetting part of the essence of the things involved - eg we forget that cause is a necessary part of event [making a decision], and so we imagine free will, or event without cause

if something is free from being caused, it is free from existence - nothing uncaused exists

so we humans live in imagination instead of reality - we frighten and confuse ourselves with bogeymen, impossibilities like existing nonexistence

whereas in fact it is all existence out there - aint one bit of nonexistence anywhere - never will be any nonexistence anywhere

[even empty space exists, for otherwise there would be no distance between stars]

imagination ignores and forgets logic and sense

we imagine the universe existing without us being here - forgetting that everything is experience, and so an experience [of the universe] without an experiencer is logically impossible, ie selfcontradictory, never going to happen, never can happen

we believe in free will, and then feel responsible and to blame and guilty for things we do - instead of just thinking: oops, i made a mistake in the pursuit of my happiness and hurt myself - so the whole of guilt and blame is nonlogical - a product of the imagination imagining nonpossible things

we imagine god, and live whole lives based on this imagination, whereas god is the one thing that cant be imagined, because god [aka lifeforce, or potential, or energy, or creativity, or infinity, or creator, or life, or existence, or tao], is formless and unlimited - ie has nothing about it you can imagine

anyone who serves an imagined god is worshipping something limited, formed, shaped, imaginable - exactly what god isnt

the purpose of life is turning the imagination from master to slave - disciplining imagination with sense

fear of death is actually a projection of selfhate, selfdestruction - the more one loves oneself, the more one knows that death [and everything else that exists] is love - eliminate selfhate and you eliminate fear

why do we assume death will be bad? - for no reason at all

Answer 2

I think that a good imagination is perhaps the most important assets a person can have. Along with a good sense of humor. The ability to dream and imagine is what seperates us from the animals, and is also the only way perhaps that a human mind is superior to that of a computer. A CPU can crunch numbers and solve equations aat lightening speed, but cannot perform the simplest sort of imagination. The imaginations of great minds of mankind have got us where we are today, with all the advances in science and technology and space. Someone once looked up at the moon and imagined that maybe man could land on it someday. He may have been labeled as crazy at the time but look what happened.
Imagination is precious; without it we are automatons.

Answer 3

Human=imagination

Answer 4

Imagination is the foundation for creative writing such as literary works,poems, ,writing a novel or a bestseller, movie screenplay.artistic paintings, and inventions in science, Could you imagine if those writers or composers don't have the imagination to compose the tunes to a song, scores or theme for the movies? Life would be so dull.in black and white. How about for those writers to imagine plots for a movie and situation comedies for TV or imagine the concepts for all those TV reality shows. That's why imagination is important. Without imagination, the Wright Brothers wouldn't be able to invent the first airplane. Without imagination, Bill Gates won't be able to invent the computer and we won't be able to have YA.

Answer 5

With out imagination life would be dull. It is an expression of who we are. I like to imagine, I won the lottery, and plan all the things I am going to do, and where I am going to go. Who I can bless. Who's life I can change, like pull up at a house and change their lives with things they never had, Necessities, Medical. Maybe someone like me who has never had a brand new car, buy them one. I know they would be thrilled. I know I would! Imagination so important. I can imagination it now!

Answer 6

Imagination allows us to think beyond what is directly perceived and extrapolate and formulate novel combinations of what is.

Imagination allows the sculpture to see the statue in the rock, the architect to perceive a pile of stone and brick and formulate the building in his head.

Imagination is seeing beyond what is towards what could be.

And, of course, imagination is what allows we mere mortals to put words together in order to woe women - and that is, of course, one of life's pinnacle achievements.

Answer 7

Imagination is . . . prized for its role in artistic creativity and human understanding. In Kant's account, imagination performs indispensable roles in perception as an intermediary between our sensibility and understanding which allows us to have knowledge of a unified world.

Answer 8

It motivates you that's why imagination is important.

Answer 9

Because it is human nature. Imagining helps our creativity grow. Creativity is a wonderful skill to have.

Answer 10

to me imagination is important cause without it we wouldnt survive. cause sometimes reality is a hard thing to take and ith out imagination hope would be a hard thing to have then w/o hope... well w/o hope i wouldnt survive i'm not sure about anyone else but thats my opinion...