Imagination is probably a talent unique to humans. Other animals lack imagination, so there will be no creation. In all human creative activities, especially science and art In both philosophy and philosophical creation, imagination plays an important role. Because the so-called human creation is nothing else but the most wonderful work produced by imagination. The following is what I bring to you, I hope you like it!
What is imagination:
People can not only recall the images of things they have perceived in the past, but also create new images . This process in which old experiences, that is, old representations, are recombined in the human brain under the influence of *** to produce images of new things is called imagination.
Imagination is a psychological process in which the original representations in people's minds are processed, transformed and recombined to produce new images. It is a high-order and complex cognitive activity. Imagery and novelty are the basic characteristics of imaginative activities. It mainly deals with graphic information and presents it in people's minds in an intuitive way, rather than presenting it in the form of words, symbols, concepts, etc.
From the perspective of purpose: imagination includes random imagination and involuntary imagination. Judging from the novelty of the content: there is imagination for reinvention and creation. From the perspective of the relationship between imagination and reality: there are fantasies, ideals, and utopias.
The ability of people to construct unexperienced things and images based on past knowledge is called imagination. For example, the stories of Chang'e flying to the moon, exploring treasures in the Dragon Palace, seeking scriptures from the West and causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace in "Journey to the West" are all products of imagination. Imagination is extremely useful in human thinking.
Imagination is a high-level cognitive process unique to humans. Imagination is the process by which people recombine existing objective images of things in their minds into a new image of something. Many things, including certain characters, are the result of imagination. The heavenly palace, overseas fairy mountains, and Yama world in Chinese mythology are all the result of fictional imagination. For example, the image of Zhu Bajie was created by the author of "Journey to the West" who combined the image of a pig with the image of a human, combined the pig's head with the human body, and gave it a certain character. Such a monster with a pig's head and body, speaking human language, and possessing human thoughts and feelings has not only not existed in the past, but also will not exist now or in the future.
In this way, imagination seems to have nothing to do with reality and is completely the free creation of the human brain.
Imagination is indeed divorced from reality to varying degrees, but it must be based on reality and be a reflection of objective reality. Although some imaginary things may be very absurd in general and do not and cannot exist in the real world, the materials that make up the whole always come from objective reality. Although there is no Zhu Bajie in reality, the materials that make up the complete image of Zhu Bajie, such as the pig's head, human body, five-tooth rake, the clothes Zhu Bajie wears, and the language he speaks, all exist in real life. People's imagination can be seen at any time and found everywhere in daily life, production and labor, literature and art, science and technology.
Human imagination is generated on the basis of extensive perception, rich experience, and profound knowledge. In the mid-19th century, there was a man named Allen Poe who had been engaged in journalism for many years in the United States. He had a large amount of news materials and related knowledge for solving cases. Once, a strange murder case occurred in New York, which the police could not solve. Ai Lunpo, who was in Philadelphia, only relied on a few news reports reported by newspapers, used his experience and knowledge, and imagined the case with amazing imagination. many specific details and turned his imagination into a detective novel. Later, the case was solved, and people found that the actual case was surprisingly similar to Ai Lunpo's novel, which even amazed detectives. It can be seen that rich knowledge is the basis of imagination. Without a knowledge base and no scientific basis, boundless imagination can only be meaningless fantasy.
However, knowledge and imagination are not the same thing. Knowledge is only the prerequisite for stimulating imagination. Although some people know a lot, their thoughts are rigid, their opinions and concepts are old, and they cannot make full use of the existing knowledge to develop. The wings of my own imagination turned out to be the slave of knowledge. The inventor Edison did not read many books, and his knowledge was obtained through self-study. However, he had a rich imagination and could make full use of the knowledge he possessed to creatively imagine and turn imagination into inventions through thinking. He created more than 2,000 creations and inventions in his lifetime, of which more than 1,000 were officially registered with the Patent Office.
Within a year in 1882, there was a new invention every three days on average. However, many scholars of his generation who were as knowledgeable as him remained unknown throughout their lives.
French biologist Claude Bernard said: The biggest obstacle to our learning is the known, not the unknown. It means that people cannot be bound by existing things or knowledge, but should be based on existing knowledge, boldly imagine, and come up with novel and original new insights.
Since imagination does not entirely depend on the amount of knowledge, are scientists born with rich imagination in their brains? No. Some psychologists believe that the human brain has four functional areas, namely the sensory area, storage area, judgment area, and imagination area. Obviously, the first three refer to observation, memory and thinking. In daily life, ordinary people often use the first three areas, while the imagination area is generally only used 15%. Scientists all have rich imaginations because the imagination area in their brains is often in a state of active excitement and they are good at imagining ideas and creating new images. However, most people do not exploit the potential of the imagination zone enough.
The process of imagination belongs to the category of thinking, mainly in the form of analysis and synthesis.
The analysis and synthesis of imagination are achieved by relying on images. In order to construct a new image, a person must process and transform the relevant existing representations. On the one hand, the characteristics of existing representations are analyzed, and those that are useless for constructing new images are discarded, and those that are useful are taken out; on the other hand, after such analysis, synthesis is used to Construct a new image by combining those representations that are useful in constructing a new image. For example, the image of the Arctic scenery is formed through analysis and synthesis, combining the images of thousands of miles of ice, snow, wind, wilderness, and uninhabited wilderness, as well as images of polar bears, dog sleds, etc.
Imagination has high and low levels, complex and simple. For example, the typical image of Ah Q in Lu Xun's works is the product of complex high-level analysis and synthesis. Lu Xun himself said: The prototype of a character is never dedicated to one person. Often the mouth is in Zhejiang, the brain is in Beijing, and the clothes are in Shanxi. It is a patchwork of characters. Gorky said that in order to create a typical image of small businessmen, officials, and workers, it is necessary to put their most representative class characteristics on each of the 20 to 50, or even hundreds of small shop owners, officials, and workers. , habits, hobbies, postures, beliefs, conversation, etc. are extracted, and then integrated into a small shop owner, official, or worker.
Imagination training questions:
1 If you have a small ball, what can you do with it? The one who comes up with the most uses wins.
2 How many ways can you think of to know the weight of an object?
3 Use cardboard to make a disk, divided into 12 grids like a clock face. In the position of the 12 numbers, write 12 abstract properties, such as 1. Yellow, 2. Precious, 3. Small, 4. Movable, 5. Useful, 6. Heavy, 7. Mobile, 8. Elastic, 9 .Round shape, 10. Valuable, 11. Short, 12. Durable. Install an indicator that can rotate flexibly in the middle of the disc. In this way, you can play a game: one person turns the pointer. When the pointer stops, the pointer points to a property. The person turning the pointer can cite things with this property. You can also turn it twice in a row. Name things that have both qualities at the same time. The more things you name, the better.
4 Six apples, hung one every 1 meter on a 5-meter-long rope, just right. Now that I have eaten an apple, I want to use the rope again. There is still an apple tied every 1 meter. There is no rope left. How should I tie it?
5 Brother uses the rope to make a circle with a diameter of 3 meters. , my brother jumped out immediately. The brother said: OK, I will use this rope to make another loop so that you can never jump out. Do you know what kind of circle your brother made?
6 Use 14 matches to place two upside-down cups as shown in the picture. As long as you move five matches, you can turn the mouth of the cup upside down. , how to move?
Imagination training question 1
7 There was such a year in the 20th century. Write the year of this year on paper and turn the paper upside down. The number on the paper is still the year. Please think of this year.
8If you add any sign between 8 and 9, you can get a number greater than 8 and less than 9.
9 A man asked Afanti: Afanti, can you plant 10 saplings in five rows, with four trees in each row? Afanti was a little stumped. Is there anything you can do?
10 Think about it, which shadow is the biggest among the shadows you see?
11 When you eat an apple, the peel will stretch out in the middle according to the normal width. Cut it off continuously and lay it flat on the table. What shape does it look like?
12 A hunter took a dog up the mountain to hunt. Can you draw this scene with 3 strokes?
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13 A shepherd asked Afanti: Are there wolves in the world that do not eat sheep? Yes, there are. Afanti said firmly. What kind of wolf is that? May I ask? Please think about it.
14 A king wanted to stump a little prodigy and asked: How many buckets of water are there in front of the palace? The little prodigy blinked and gave an answer that satisfied the king. Guess what the little prodigy answered?
15 What is the longest and shortest thing in the world, the fastest and the slowest thing in the world, can divide the smallest and expand the kit to infinity, and is least valued by people? And the most cherished. Without it, nothing can be done. What is that?
16 What does this figure look like? The more you name it, the richer your imagination is.
Imagination training question 2
17 What is this image?
Imagination training question 3
186 matches Put them together without breaking or bending, so that any one match is in contact with the other five matches. How should they be placed?
19 Three cows and three tigers want to cross the river. There is only one small boat, which can transport two cows across the river at a time, but it cannot come back empty. In order to prevent tigers from eating cows, the number of cows on one bank cannot be less than the number of tigers. How should we cross? At least how many times do we need to cross?
20 It is said that one day, Zhuge Liang gathered his soldiers together and said: Whoever among you choose an integer from 1 to 1024 and record it in Mentally, I asked 10 questions, asking only for a yes or no answer. After you have answered all 10 questions, I will calculate the number you have in mind. As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, a counselor stood up and said that he had chosen a number. Zhuge Liang asked, your number is greater than 512? The counselor replied: No. Zhuge Liang asked the counselor nine more questions. The counselors all answered one by one. Zhuge Liang finally said: The number you remembered is 1. The counselor was very surprised when he heard this. Because the number he chose was exactly 1.
Do you know how Zhuge Liang calculated?
21 Kongming divided the soldiers into 8 groups, each group had an equal number of people, and arranged them into a square. Eight array diagram. After that, he secretly increased the number of soldiers, but the number of soldiers on each side of the square did not increase, but the total number did. Do you know how to increase the method? If the original arrangement is as shown in the picture, how much can be added at most?
Imagination training question 4
Reference answers
4Tie one end of the rope to the apple at the other end to form a circle.
Imagination training question 5
5 The elder brother tied the rope to the younger brother, of course the younger brother couldn't jump out.
6 Move according to the picture below, the mouth of the cup can be turned upside down
Imagination training question 6
71961.
If you add a decimal point to 8, you get 8.9.
9 is as shown in the picture.
Imagination training question 7
10 The shadow of the earth is night.
11 as shown in the figure.
Imagination training question 8
12 A shotgun and a dog's tail are exposed behind the mountain, as shown in the picture.
13 That is a dead wolf or a painted wolf.
The 14-year-old prodigy said this: It depends on how big the bucket is. If the bucket is as big as the pool, then there is one bucket of water; if the bucket is only half the size of the pool, then there are two buckets of water.
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18 as shown in the figure.
Imagination training question 9
19 requires 6 times.
① One ox and one tiger cross the river, and one ox returns; ② Two oxen cross the river, and one tiger returns; ③ Two oxen cross the river, and one ox and one tiger return; ④ Two oxen cross the river, and one tiger returns ; ⑤ Two tigers cross the river, and one tiger returns; ⑥ Two tigers cross the river.
201024 is taken half and half, and when it is taken for the 10th time, it is 1. According to this principle, if you ask 10 questions in a row, you can find the number you need.
21 can add up to 12 people.