Imagination AND THE RANDOMNESS OF THOUGHT

Volume 4 No 1 (2006)

Lars Rönnbäck1

Abstract

Imagine no imagination. Thoughts would be nothing but appropriate responses to stimuli, humans reduced to rely on instincts alone and ideas impossible. If we on the other hand had only imagination, thoughts would be disconnected from the world outside us, our minds living in solitude without the possibility to communicate. Both ways are evolutionary dead ends, so nature devised a better way, one where imagination and instinct play equally important roles.

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