The Emergence Machine

Imagination

abstract · Psychology · Level 8 · E9

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Imagination is the mind's ability to form novel mental representations by recombining and transforming remembered patterns and perceived experiences, leveraging its capacity for creative synthesis and idea generation.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “imagination” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “imagination”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
imagination
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0ImaginationMindCognitionMemoryPerception… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesCreativityL9DreamL9IllusionL9EmpathyL10WishL10ImaginationL8MindL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Mind L7 (requires)
    Imagination is the mind's ability to form images and ideas not present to the senses

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