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The Matter With Things Part 3 with Iain McGilchrist

The Innovation Show

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The Importance of Intuition and Imagination

Inn intuition can cover just such a lot of things, things we call instincts and knee jerk reactions. In the third chapter I bridge from intuition to imagination because in a way what happens in intuition is that we are using our imagination to see something that it connects. It isn't really a hard and fast rule about what we mean by imagination, surprisingly. But what I am keen to differentiate it from because I think it's so very important to have the imagination is to differentiation it from fantasy. The distinction was one made by two very important figures in the history of indestructures to words with encourage.

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