Regarding the Human Aspect of Imagination, Part 1:
Everything we know is probably a figment of the imagination, but that doesn't mean it isn't real!
Whomsoever has encountered the arts of mathematical natures, and has not developed a deep respect for the functions they provide, probably doesn't realize entirely how much his\her understanding of the world incorporates the use of numbers or functions involved with them therewith in ordinary use of language. Not to mention the degree to which our most basic needs are met on a day to day basis simply because such a concept can be grasped and developed through the continual feedback of symbols and intellectual recourse, while being recognized at relatively early ages of brain development in humans.
The same might be said about a number of vocationally expressive activities; from sciences to poetics, painting to reading, logic to religious devotion.
Here is our first piece of the map!
What is even less recognized than these however, are the very natures by which these arts of humanity have unveiled to humankind. As we wake slowly evermore, to the eastern sun rising in yesterdays tomorrow, we slowly peel back our eyelids to the ever changing blossoms of misshapen chaos in well seeming forms, unfolding alongside us. To understand not these, but rather how it is we have come to see them as we do, or how we may come to see them again in new light, we must as it were, clue in with Marshal McLuhan, and look into the rear view mirror of our vehicles of the present, into the past. We must look far back, into some of the our earliest moments, some of which we can only speculate stories, legends, or maybe even develop theories about, and understand what it means to truly evolve the paradigmatic structures of what it means to be an individual, part of a group, and what it means to witness and participate in the unfolding tapestry of life that we continually weave evermore, out into that brave new world.
And so, we come by some fortuitous series of events- as if somehow orchestrated, but only enough so to collect the proverbial band of brothers thus far- that we come upon the topic of the first series we shall endeavor upon. Let us keep in mind throughout the upcoming series, that the primary objective of thought throughout these works, is to develop an expanding and evolving philosophy, which in scientific query is; adaptive, humorous, highly communicative, and generally charismatic, whilst in daily practice: stagnant, benign, difficult to understand, and generally monotonous (while still a highly engaging activity in both). As a general rule, the practice of "To each their own absurdity," is widely applicable, and readers are encouraged to abstain from personally acceptable thought practices that are generally accepted by large groups of any label, (if any.) This is of course, unless the general practice of a group accepts the personal thought practices of any individuals in the group, in which case the opposite would apply and individuals (if any) would be encouraged to conform in practice when under the tutelage of a group paradigm which encourages uniqueness and individuality.
Next week, we will be taking a look at the origin of the concept of zero, and power of the story in history.