For example, we cannot imagine infinity...things like that.
2007-08-10 22:39:01 · 11 answers · asked by jess 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
huh? we can imagine infinity. we cannot measure it though. perhaps thats what your question is aiming for. intangible things like death?
2007-08-10 22:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course we can imagine infinity - we defined it and gave it a symbol and know what is infinity and what is not infinity.
What humans cannot imagine or mentally process cannot be communicated - right? If I tell you what I cannot imagine,it would be wrong because then I would have already imagined it.
Another debate could be - what might be out there and everywhere that we cannot percieve.
I think all living things and non living things communicate with "vibes" that we emit - unknowingly - through our inner most desires and this is something that is sub-atomic which will be known some thousand years from now.
EnjoY
2007-08-11 00:06:00 · answer #2 · answered by vinod s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have problems with any number of tasks.
Consider a simple game of chess.
Now consider all the alternative moves one can make.
So while some people can imagine a whole game through, some can imagine a couple of games they may have played but nobody can really select through all the contingencies of a particular game after a particular move. Most grandmasters only consider about 1-2 moves ahead in a game.
We generally as a species suck at mathematics involving multiple variables , add more than 3 variables into an equation and the number of people on the planet that can handle that problem is vanishingly small.
We have problems wrapping our heads around some of the principles of quantum mechanics.
2007-08-10 23:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mark T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can imagine infinity...!!!
It's the amount of irritation I feel toward my girlfriend when she gets mad at me for no reason (or at least...for reasons so petty that anger is the "infinitely inappropriate" response to the situation)
But to answer your question...
1. A state of "non-being" (like the time that existed before you were conceived and after you're dead)
2. What it's like to have a vagina...(even women can't imagine THAT one)
3. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey's wealth...(that goes "beyond" infinity)
4. Being an inanimate object...
5. And...(for ME, anyway) being married...
2007-08-10 22:58:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing..... whatever we can neither imagine nor process at least mentally does not exist in so far as we are concerned.
2007-08-10 23:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we cannot mentally process something or even Imagine it, then we do not know what we cannot imagine or mentally process. To think of something is to imagine or mentally process it.
Therefore this question is unanswerable.
2007-08-10 23:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by Amanda// 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we can mentally process the prospect of living a pointless, meaningless existence. A small speck of nothingness in a vast universe that cares nothing of us. If we don't believe in God, we have to invent purpose and pretend that it is real.
2007-08-10 22:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can imagine anything we like if we put our mind to it.
2007-08-11 01:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where God came from. If you don't believe in God, then where anything came from. Why do we exist. The size of outer space.
2007-08-10 22:48:38 · answer #9 · answered by Sandfrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the light of our Creator...if we were to be in his abode as a body being,we would be deaf, dumb&blind and turn to dust. then as a spirit we might be free to see.......
2007-08-11 02:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by michael l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋