Like 7 headed snake.
2007-06-18 10:39:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Scientists, inventors, fantasy writers do it all the time. Nicholas Tesla imagined the AC generator, motor, transformer, and made possible the electircal systems used around the world today. Einstein imagined what it would be like to travel at the speed of light, and invented Relativity. Kurt Vonnegut imagined fantastic worlds and gave us new insights into what it is to be Human.
2007-06-18 14:15:32 · answer #1 · answered by johnnizanni 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we can all imagine a 7 headed snake, but if someone said "imagine a face you have never seen before", and it's really hard to make up someone's face. i find it hard anyway. when the brain has to create something abstract like a never before seen face, i think it struggles more than something like the 7 headed snake, because you know it will be a snake, which you have seen before, with 6 more heads which is easy to imagine.
2007-06-18 13:27:42 · answer #2 · answered by Xavier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just gave an example in your question. A seven headed snake. And we can imagine things that aren't even that closely related to things we have seen before.
Now a little bell just went off. Do I remember from long ago an argument that ET aliens must be real because people can't imagine what they have never seen and yet so many have drawn pictures of these clearly non-human beings? Of course, that would be a ridiculous argument. (Or did I just imagine that?)
2007-06-18 10:54:09 · answer #3 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ive always wondered that. The snake thing is easy. We have all seen snakes in one form or another and the brain just adds details (heads) to that with our imagination but what about other things like aliens? We can only imagine them as little green men with big eyes and bulging heads. I don't think you can imagine what you haven't seen as the image isn't in your memory.
2007-06-18 10:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by DJJD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In one sense yes - it's easy to picture things in our minds that should not really exist - as long as they are composed from pieces we have seen before.
On the other hand, consider this. A child is reared for the first 3 years of its life in a house decorated only in black and white.
Now - if you asked the child to imagine 'a green frog', could the child do it? Can it's brain imagine a colour it has never seen?
Or how about imagining music that has never been heard before ... someone who has never heard a violin say, being asked to imagine Nigel Kennedy playing 'The Lark Ascending'.
2007-06-18 20:49:01 · answer #5 · answered by DoctorBob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only true talents can imagine new things, and they still use all there past experience to do so. There's millions of new things staring u in the the face and you just got to tell your brain to shut up for a minute to see them.
2007-06-19 02:41:39 · answer #6 · answered by The Dude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can imagine George Bush telling the truth and that has no basis in reality, so I'd say, yes, it is possible.
2007-06-18 10:47:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. You can imagine anything you like!
2007-06-18 13:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
imagination have no limits, but then it would be imagined differently from one person to another
2007-06-19 23:08:23 · answer #9 · answered by Majdi B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Have you never watched Star Trek?
2007-06-18 12:59:23 · answer #10 · answered by butterscotch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋