Imagination & Nature

[Himanshu]

Improvised repost of an older thread by @David1 :

When looking into the imagination, I found this description on Wikipedia : "The common use of the term is for the process of forming new images in the mind that have not been previously experienced with the help of what has been seen, heard, or felt before, or at least only partially or in different combinations."

Isn't this exactly what nature is doing and has been doing since the start of the universe? Combining subatomic particles into atoms, then combining different atoms into molecules, combining molecules into ever more complex organic molecules until life came into being. From that point on we call this process 'evolution'. From unicellular organisms like amoeba, multicellular functioning organisms with essentially the similar system. 

İn other words: forming new things, with the help of what was there before by using that in different combinations.

Very similar to 'imagination' if you ask me.

So we could say we're living in 'imagination'? We're imagined beings capable of exerting imagination ourselves ;D. Isn't infinity, all possibilities, everything goes, an inherent quality of the imagination? 

After Leo's last episode on Absolute infinity, this goes deeper than it first seems to. Is the role of human imagination much more than we consider in our everyday lives?

[Visitor]

@Himanshu Yes. After all we are simply thought machines.

[Nahm]

@Himanshu

Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination

We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation
What we'll see will defy explanation

If you want to view paradise simply look around and view it!
Anything you want to, do it - want to change the world?
There's nothing to it!

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination
Living there you'll be free, If you truly wish to be

If you want to see magic lands
Close your eyes and you will see one
Want to be a dreamer, be one!
Anytime you please and please save me one