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...

Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ability of an embodied agent to simulate its own behaviors, predict their sensory-based consequences, and extract behavioural benefit from doing so. We identify five key components of architectures for functional imagina...

the problem of “imagination”, as raised by muslimphilosophers, has several epistemic consequences insubjects as diverse as ontology, prophecy,conceptualization and the functions of art. inilluminationist philosophy of suhrawardi, moreover, bearsthe topic of imagination a correlation to other subjects. ofthe foundations of suhrawardi's processing of the theoryof imagination, the most promin...

Abstract This paper considers the epistemic role that embodiment plays in imagining. We focus on two aspects of embodied cognition understood its strong sense: explicit motoric processes related to performance, and neuronal rooted bodily action processes, describe their The argues these strongly can play distinctive positive roles constraining imagining, thereby complementing Amy Kind's argumen...

Studies on memory, imagination, and empathy have largely progressed in isolation. Consequently, humans' empathic tendencies to care about and help other people are considered independent of our ability to remember and imagine events. Despite this theoretical autonomy, work from across psychology, and neuroscience suggests that these cognitive abilities may be linked. In the present paper, I ten...

A long and well-established philosophical tradition assigns the imagination a central role in the justification of our modal beliefs. Just as perceiving a state of affairs justifies us in believing that it is actual, imagining a state of affairs is thought to justify us in believing that it is possible. This tradition has its fair share of opponents, and even among its adherents there is by no ...