Imagination
is accepted as the innate ability
and process to invent partial
or complete personal realms within
the mind from elements derived
from sense perceptions of the
shared world. The term is technically
used in psychology for the process
of reviving in the mind percepts
of objects formerly given in sense
perception. Since this use of
the term conflicts with that of
ordinary language, some psychologists
have preferred to describe this
process as "imaging"
or "imagery" or to speak
of it as "reproductive"
as opposed to "productive"
or "constructive" imagination.
Imagined images are seen with
the "mind's eye". One
hypothesis for the evolution of
human imagination is that it allowed
conscious beings to solve problems
(and hence increase an individual's
fitness) by use of mental simulation.
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