Imagination is considered an important component of the creative process, and many psychologists agree that imagination is based on our perceptions, experiences, and conceptual knowledge, recombining them into novel ideas and impressions never before experienced. As an attempt to model this account of imagination, we introduce the Associative Conceptual Imagination (ACI) framework that uses ass...

Zijlstra, Jan G. MD, PhD1,2; van Meurs, Matijs Moser, Jill PhD1,2 Author Information

“naive imagination is like a dark glass that prevent the shining lights entering the heart, but when is ripe enough become a clear glass that points those lights.” (ghazali, the niche of lights, p.73) iranian philosopher and educator, abu hamid ghazali (1058-1111 a.d.) is the author of more than seventy books and essays on philosophy, education, mysticism, ethics, jurisprudence and dialectica...