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Alison Gopnik on the Imagination

Philosophy Bites

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The Power of Imagination

As adults, do we still need the imagination in the same way as children? We're always exploring very, very low probability hypotheses. What we do is we take things that start out being very unlikely and we actually make them real. The gee, what would happen if we did this is really the central thing that causal cognition and causal thinking allows you to do.

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