A Curious Question
Imagine. If you are some 97–99% of the population, you can, at least to some degree, summon up a mental image. For instance, if I simply write, “Imagine a sunset...” that, in most readers, summons the actual “image” of a sunset in the mind’s eye so to speak. Now, if you were me, you could not do this to any degree, not even a mere flicker of a sunset. In fact, if you were me, you would have a power of visualization equal to zero , meaning, of course, that absolutely nothing, that is, the actual no–thing , would be in your head, utter darkness to be exact. I can, however, conceive . Form a conception of a sunset, it being, some complex product of abstract and reflective thinking. Though it is strange, the conception of a sunset, possessing as it were Aristotelian bodies with properties, like: the sun with an orange hue, the earth/sky horizon as a Cartesian line superimposed on the background to demarcate and hence create the idea of a sunset , the impending darkness, etc. but none ...