{"id":657,"date":"2015-08-03T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:52:00","slug":"imagining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Imagining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist&#8217;s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. \u00a0The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous, independent of other functions. That would seem to make it critical to cognitive functioning as a whole, rather than something peripheral, which is the way it has appeared, at least to those outside philosophy. \u00a0I read it \u00a0in Ihde&#8217;s book\u00a0<em>Experimental Phenomenology<\/em>, first published in 1976! \u00a0Casey insists that imagination may be, but is not necessarily creative, and further makes a close link between imagination and freedom. \u00a0It sounds like Flusser&#8217;s claim that digital technology could potentially expand, enhance freedom. \u00a0But only potentially. \u00a0The kicker is that it must be used with imagination, as a means of inventing variations.<\/p>\n<p>Ihde objects to the idea that freedom is achieved only through imagining, saying that there may be variations in perception. \u00a0Using his careful instructions for perceiving the famous Necker cube &#8212; shown here &#8212; in a variety of ways, a reader\/viewer does in fact arrive at initially startling new perceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist&#8217;s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. \u00a0The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[184,185,183,138,146],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","tag-experimental-phenomenology","tag-freedom","tag-ihde","tag-imagining","tag-phenomenology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}