Thanks Saj. Love your Einstein quote. I also like his quote "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales." We don’t talk enough about the importance of imagination and storytelling when grappling with complex and difficult problems, as he did. Thanks for reminding us!
Thanks Al - yes I think there is a real connection between imagination and intelligence. I've been seeing some stuff about how the digital generation seems less able (or perhaps less willing?) to read and think and analyse than their parents and grandparents. I suspect this has something to do with the underuse of imagination that results from doom scrolling social media. Another reason it should be banned for children!
This is a great telling of a reality that I think is self-evidently the case and is an inspiring view of how we humans make sense for ourselves and our communities of that little and dispersed sense data that we take in… And yet if it is so, then is it still not open to the critique of solipsism - that whilst more committed to a concept of there being an actual reality outside our own heads (unlike some would postulate, whilst then living somewhat otherwise in their day to day existence…), it does still seem to be there, as the imaginative narratives and the various data from which they’re spun are potentially so infinitely varied as to amount to the same thing?
Thanks Saj. Love your Einstein quote. I also like his quote "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales." We don’t talk enough about the importance of imagination and storytelling when grappling with complex and difficult problems, as he did. Thanks for reminding us!
Thanks Al - yes I think there is a real connection between imagination and intelligence. I've been seeing some stuff about how the digital generation seems less able (or perhaps less willing?) to read and think and analyse than their parents and grandparents. I suspect this has something to do with the underuse of imagination that results from doom scrolling social media. Another reason it should be banned for children!
This is a great telling of a reality that I think is self-evidently the case and is an inspiring view of how we humans make sense for ourselves and our communities of that little and dispersed sense data that we take in… And yet if it is so, then is it still not open to the critique of solipsism - that whilst more committed to a concept of there being an actual reality outside our own heads (unlike some would postulate, whilst then living somewhat otherwise in their day to day existence…), it does still seem to be there, as the imaginative narratives and the various data from which they’re spun are potentially so infinitely varied as to amount to the same thing?