• Question: why do we have an imagination ? humans think up things that are even not invented or impossible to invent, why ?

    Asked by mozzaaaaaaaaaa to Alastair, Emma, Hywel, Keith, Vicki on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Alastair Sloan answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Hi Mozzaa

      We have an imagination as it helps provide meaning to our experiences and provides understanding to knowledge.It is a fundamental facility through which we make sense of the world and it also plays a big role in the learning process. It also allows us to create theories based on experiences which helps us invent new things

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      Keith Brain answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Probably because having an imagination gives us a competitive advantage, and so has allowed people with imagination to do well (and have more children, and keep them alive for longer) compared with those that didn’t.

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      Vicki Stevenson answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      wow – hard question!
      I don’t know why we have an imagination (that implies that someone decided to give us one), but I think it is our capacity to imagine which has caused humans to achieve some amazing (and amazingly awful) things.

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