Human Imagination

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Humans cannot imagine. Yes humans cannot imagine things, that they haven’t seen or heard about before. We need an inspiration for everything. We need something to associate with. Fantasies are partially based upon real things. An example from nature or divine intervention; it depends on your belief, is always required to imagine. There has been plenty of controversies, where most argue over the power of human imagination. For most of such issues, the one explanation given is; it’s beyond the power of human imagination. This per se is quite confusing.  

Power and ability are two different things. Being able to do something is not as the same as having the power to do something. Human power, being a measurable thing has to have an end. Ability cannot be measured. You are able to imagine limits, and beyond limits, providing you have something to associate with. But the power, as insane as it may sound, to imagine things without a basic picture - does not exist. It’s like you can fantasize swimming in an ocean, because you know what an ocean and swimming is. Even if you can’t swim or never seen an ocean before. But you cannot ‘think to imagine’ an ocean if there is no such thing as ocean.

The bottom-line is that there is no such thing as ‘creative imagination’. You can cross link ideas, think about patterns, you can be innovative. Which makes it very simple to understand that there is no such thing called ‘creativity‘this needs to be realized. The whole idea of creating something out of nothing is, sadly, a waste of time. Even if you accelerate particles and collide them and make something out of it, it’s not creating, you already had those particles. So if you’re thinking about doing something creative, you’re just wasting your time. Try to discover, innovate and delve. That is what has brought mankind here. The ‘just another’ creature taking control of the whole planet. So think, and stop trying to be creative and just try to do what we’re best at doing; digging things.

This is how it is... or is it?

Perception and assumption is everything. They're the key to understanding how things work. Or why they work in the first place. Perception is a result of the need to know. Need, is the reason why things work, or that is how we perceive it.

Perception and need are the two things that we, as conscience beings, use to make sense of things. Only it again depends on how each of us perceive conscience. And we do perceive it because of the need to make sense of things. Only, here we confuse ourselves by trying to understand conscience as something that is physical as any thing. So we use our senses such as hearing, smelling, seeing touching and so on to understand what could probably be nothing - emptiness.

Emptiness can be compared with conscience. It is after all what science and belief systems tell us. The great emptiness that was there before everything. The problem though, is not that we do not try to perceive emptiness, it is simply that we cannot. Much like how we do not possess the power of imagination, we simply do not have the capability to perceive emptiness.

So as conscience beings, we would probably do better if we try not to perceive conscience, but try to be in it - which is being aware of oneself. Feeling it as an empty space with no walls, no surface and no presence whatsoever, but energy. Borrowed energy that is very potential, which needs the right trigger to spread out in directions that we do and do not know of. A trigger to help it get kinetic. The trigger is to connect with the same energy that is distributed across the space.

The connection however already exists. Being aware of the connection, helps realize the relationship between all things present. But the problem is, this realization will open up a new perception of why things are perceived the way they are. It will take immense amount of true effort to digest the fact that reality is the biggest illusion.

Reality as we know it, as we perceive it, is a product of what we see, feel, smell, hear and taste. With our sensory capability, reality appears to be what it is now. Much like how reality to dogs or butterflies or mantis shrimps would appear to those. Different, and perceivable to us only through assumption.

So it is assumption that keeps us going. Assumption of needs that trigger perception. Assumption of self-awareness, consciousness, and the supposedly mysterious sub-conscious.

But what is sub-conscious? Can you try to perceive it with what you know of your consciousness?