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 ...

Current focus in the health care ethics literature on the character of the practitioner has a reputable pedigree. Rather than offer a staple diet of Aristotelian ethics in the undergraduate curricula, perhaps instead one should follow Murdoch's suggestion and help the practitioner to develop vision and moral imagination, because this has a practical rather than a theoretical aim. The imaginativ...

Stories are an essential piece of human intelligence. They exist in countless forms and varieties seamlessly integrated into every facet of our lives. Stories fuel human understanding and our explanations of the world. Narrative acts as a Swiss army knife, simultaneously facilitating the transfer of knowledge, culture and beliefs while also powering our high level mental faculties. If we are to...

ion in the Verstandes-Actus) but, rather, is only depicted by means of Comparation (and the other two acts of understanding). The form of nexus in the timescape of subjective time (figure 23) shows us the real context for this aspect of the Comparation property set. Referring to this and the schemata of Relation in figure 22, we can make out three topological forms of representation trajectorie...

Given an image, humans effortlessly run the image formation process backwards in their minds: they can tell albedo from shading, foreground from background, and imagine the occluded parts of the scene behind foreground objects. In this work, we propose a weakly supervised inversion machine trained to generate similar imaginations that when rendered using differentiable, graphics-like decoders, ...