I truly hope my brain will do more than just imagine. Since my brain controls all the other functions of my body and my ability to process thoughts, I would ask more from my brain then just imagery.
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Well, I think the main purpose of the brain is to be the boss of the body and keep it alive. For lesser animals, that is exclusively the purpose of the brain. Human beings are more developed and complex and have the imagination...
So it means that it's upto the brain to choose how to react to external stimuli..................Though I agree that brain is all powerful in human body but if responses are brain's imagination then people with different imaginations should give different responses to same stimuli but most often we give the same kind of responses...........all babies cry when they are hungry...............we take our hand away from a hot cup of coffee and so forth.
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If you think about it I'm not negating the definition of the senses as we know them; I'm only saying they command the imagination; thus being sense.
The mind conceptualizes/integrates/refines data from all outside sources. The input mechanisms for the mind are the five senses. As one or more senses"input streams" are compromised, the mind compensates much like a computer reacts to a virus. The mind recalculates/realigns at best until it finally "blue screens".
It's an interesting theory. There is definitely a portion of the brain whose function it is to imagine. And this portion is an integral part of what it is we think of as humanity, that which separates us from the animals. But I think it's the other way around. Imagination gives us creative ways of interacting with our external environment, the one we use our senses to perceive. Rather than the senses projecting inward to fuel our imagination, I think our imagination projects outward, influencing our senses, or at least the way we interpret the data our senses relay to us. The main purpose of our brain is to formulate responses to external stimuli. Imagination helps us to see more creative options to dealing with complex situations.
Yes, that's pretty close to what's generally assumed by science. It's quiet obvious that the brain doesn't just process facts to come to objective results. We (the brain) operates a lot with preset patterns - some are already there by birth, other are shaped by experience later - and that we rather make the perceptions fit into our expectations of how thing are supposed to be. A good example are optical illusions, or effects we hear when listening to white noise, and many other misinterpretations of our senses. It's assumed that we do this to save energy and to give us quicker useable results, which we can use to act on. I guess it was a real ingenious solution that worked fine for a long time - else we wouldn't be here anymore, I guess. However, our modern life has created some problem situations where the old patterns don't work anymore and cause problems. But hey, we adapted to a lot of things in the past, so we might master that as well over the time.
The theory you just presented describes how the mind of a schizophrenic works. So I REALLY hope that's doesn't hold true for my brain..... The normal human brain takes out side stimuli and process it into the reality of what is going on around us and within our bodies, for the most part, imagination does play a lesser role. Itchy skin = bugs to the imagination, Itchy skin = rash to the normal brain.
"It's the same thing. Either way the senses drive the imagination."
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"Pardon me, it's not the same thing. If the senses drive the imagination, that means the imagination is the base of the brain's fundamental function. However most people believe the imagination is a replication of sense, depicting the senses to be the fundamental."
It's really interesting to think about what your hypothesis means for someone who has no senses at all or is at least missing quite a few. Can anyone even have no senses? I don't think I've ever heard of that happening.
