Imagination and objective reality

Can our imagination create an objective reality? If we are not adherents of magical and magical arts and stand with all the available feet on earth, considering ourselves materialists, then, answering the above question, we will most likely say no. At the same time, our main arguments will be scientific knowledge, according to which the objective reality is that which exists independently of us, our consciousness and imagination.

Therefore, no matter how much you imagine a suitcase filled with money, it will not appear. The maximum that we can do by imagination is to create purely speculative images, including fantastic ones. In order for our imagination to create something in the flesh, it is necessary to use hands and appropriate tools.

Everything seems to be so, but if you dig deeper, everything does not look as straightforward as it might seem at first glance. It turns out that there are objectively real phenomena that we create solely by the power of our imagination.

Let's look at some illustrative examples, and I'll start with cosmic scale phenomena - constellations. At first glance, it seems to us that constellations are objective phenomena that exist independently of us as knowing subjects. But if we carefully examine the process of seeing constellations, we will understand that all our constellations are based on our imagination. Judge for yourself: any constellation in the sky is a certain number of stars connected by imaginary lines into a certain configuration.

The lines that connect the stars to the constellation can not be seen with their own eyes, they can only be imagined or imagined. Therefore, in order to see the constellation, it is not enough simple vision, on the one hand, the ability to imagine, on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is necessary to undergo training in astrology or astronomy. In the process of learning, we look at the constellation patterns, remember their visual images, which then, when staring at the starry sky, spontaneously arise in our minds. Thus, without the ability of imagination and not knowing astrology or astronomy, it is impossible to see the constellations. In this case, we would see a simple chaotic cluster of bright points - the stars, and nothing more.

How did the constellations come about? Evidently, in the antiquity, in the minds of one or another astrologer, when imagining the starry sky, imaginary visual images appeared that were associated with one or another real or mythical being. These images were given certain names, then to them artificially, without any reasonable proof, astrologers attributed certain qualities and properties. Constellation of Capricorn attributed some qualities, the constellation of Sagittarius - others. Planet Mars attributed masculine qualities, and the planet Venus - feminine. Thus there was an artificial, imaginary world, where the stars and constellations began to "control" our material world, influencing the destinies of people and peoples.

In addition to the above, we can say that our imagination creates even such large water objects as the oceans, since in reality there are no boundaries that would divide the World Ocean into separate oceans. All boundaries are created exclusively by the human imagination. Just look at the map. Below, for example, shows the boundaries of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

In the following example, consider such known objective phenomena as sunrise and sunset. At first glance, it seems to us that these natural phenomena exist independently of our consciousness. But actually it is not. Imagine that three observers at the same time look at the Sun from three different points of space.

One observer, for example, in Japan, can see the sunset. Another observer, while in Europe, at the same time can see the sunrise. The third observer, while, for example, in distant cosmos, will at the same time see the Sun, which is outside the process of sunrise or sunset.

Since the Sun itself can not be in three contradictory states at the same time, it turns out that the phenomenon of sunrise and sunset exists only in the consciousness and imagination of observers who are in different points of space. Consequently, without the subject of knowledge there can be no objective phenomenon - the sunrise or sunset of the sun.

In my opinion, the foregoing is already enough to make a valid conclusion that our imagination can create objective reality in one way or another. If this is not enough for someone, then we can go further and give a more complex proof, based on the known cases of mental blindness. It manifests itself in those paradoxical situations, when at some point we do not see what we look at, we do not hear what we listen to, do not feel what we touch, etc. I think that every person has ever faced such a phenomenon, since it lies, for example, at the base of foci, illusions, fraud, etc. A well-known case here is a scientific experiment when the spectators of a basketball match did not see a man dressed in a monkey suit, despite the fact that he periodically ran out onto the sports field and was in the field of view of the spectators.

In all these cases, our sense organs at the physiological level function normally, but for any reason there is no ability to create an image of an object or phenomenon. In science, this phenomenon is called "blindness inattention" or "perceptual blindness." It is believed that this is an inability to pay attention to any object that does not pertain to vision problems and is purely psychological in nature.

Let us consider specific examples. Take, in particular, such objective phenomena as football or chess.

At first glance, it may seem to us that in order to see the game, simple vision is enough for us. In fact, this is not so. There is a situation where we can look at the game, but not see it. In order to understand how this is possible, consider the situation when we do not know the rules of football or chess.

Obviously, in this case we will see people running around the field or standing on the chess pieces, but we will not see the game until we understand the rules of the game. This I know by myself, since for me such an "invisible" game is still baseball. When I watch this game, I see only the players beating a stick on the ball, and those who catch this ball. But I do not see the game itself, because I do not understand its essence, which is the rules of the game.

Thus, to see baseball, football, hockey, etc., you need not only normal vision, but also knowledge of the rules of the game. In turn, the rules can not be seen with simple eyesight, for this we need to use the imagination, which constructs a speculative picture, where players (chess pieces) are divorced by different teams, and each player (figure) has his own function. In the same speculative way, we see the goal of the game - to score a goal or to put a mat on the opponent.

Hence, with all fairness, we can say that objectively the game exists only when players with their intellectual and physical actions "enliven" these rules. And if the players very often violate, for example, the rules of the game of football, then the game itself will not. In this case, players will run on the football field, but there will not be football itself. The same applies to any game.

Hence it follows that imagination is necessary, on the one hand, in order to create objective phenomena, on the other hand, in order to see them. If there is no imagination, then there is no way to create a visual image or representation.

Therefore, mental blindness is primarily manifested in children, since they are just beginning to form a consciousness and the ability to create certain images.

As a rule, children do not see what the adults who teach them see until they acquire the relevant knowledge. For example, children up to a certain age can not see the clock as an object, even if they look at them. The fact is that they do not yet have a corresponding image and concept, which can appear only in the process of learning and with the necessary mental abilities.

When the child finally sees the clock as an object, selecting them from the general background, he, up to a certain age, can not see the time that the clock shows, since he does not yet have the necessary knowledge that manifests itself in the ability to imagine time. After all, time can not be seen firsthand.

If the child does not yet have the necessary ability to imagine, then no learning will lead him to a vision of time. This lasts until thinking is able to form the mental images necessary for this. Hence it is clear why a child, for example, can fearlessly play with a grenade, throwing it into the fire. The fact is that he does not see a combat grenade, since he does not yet have the appropriate knowledge and visual image. He sees only an interesting thing and nothing more.

Something similar can happen to old people, since in some cases the ability to create visual images and concepts is destroyed, and the more complex these images and concepts, the more difficult it is for them to form their minds. It can be said that it is precisely because of this that senile dementia arises, when a person, despite good eyesight, hearing, etc., ceases to sense sensibly what he used to perceive earlier. The consciousness of such a person degrades, and it can be said that it gradually turns into a child. With all the ensuing consequences.

In adults, healthy people also develop a state of mental blindness. And it is clearly manifested in the relationship between men and women, since there is typically female mental blindness, and there is typically male, when some objects and phenomena are more easily and more easily discerned (learned) by men, and some by women. This is due to the fact that the conceptual spheres of thinking of men and women are formed in different ways and may not coincide in some parameters. Especially it was noticeable earlier, when male and female education fundamentally differed from each other. Therefore, men are often surprised when faced with women's blindness in matters relating, for example, cars, weapons or sports. Women, on the contrary, are surprised at how many men are childishly blind and naive in matters concerning, for example, the colors of clothing, jewelry, etc.

This can be explained by the fact that men, as a rule, do not have many of the visual images that women have, and vice versa. For example, most men, considering an orchid-cattleya, would not have seen it, since in their minds, most likely, there is no corresponding visual image. Therefore, they would see only what they have an idea of - just flowers. Conversely, most women would not see the Mercedes GLR class, because they do not have the necessary visual image. They most likely would have seen just a car. Some would see Mercedes, thanks to the knowledge of the well-known symbol. Without this symbol, I think some women would not be able to give the right definition to the car.

From the above it follows that in order to see the objective reality in the form, for example, of an orchid or car, the ability of the imagination and the presence of necessary visual images are necessary. Without this we can look at the object as much as we want, but not see it.

In my opinion, this is enough to, on the one hand, make a valid conclusion that the ability of the imagination can create objective reality in certain situations. On the other hand, one can conclude that objective idealism has definite grounds for considering its ideological concepts legitimate.