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Iain McGilchrist Λ John Vervaeke on God, Meaning, Consciousness, and Being

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

INSIGHT

Imaginable vs Imaginary

  • Iain McGilchrist distinguishes between the 'imaginary' and the 'imaginable'.
  • The imaginary involves picturing things in one's head to escape reality's limitations.
  • The imaginable uses imagination to enhance perception, aligning with concepts like deep learning and predictive processing.
  • John Vervaeke connects this distinction to Coleridge and Wordsworth's differentiation between 'fancy' (escaping reality) and 'imagination' (entering reality).
  • This concept can be traced back to earlier thinkers like Schelling.
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