What is the essence of Imagination?
Einstein, the greatest physicist of the 20th century, said that imagination is more important than knowledge, so you can't help but think of a question. What is the nature of imagination? What impact will he bring to us humans? Now let us bring such a problem to start the following reading.
Imagination is the knowledge of existence that the id does not create in reality.
There are four kinds of human cognition of existence: intuition, consciousness, feeling, and a priori. Presence is a specific default setting in a specific situation, and it is the fact that the corresponding situation subconsciously believes to be true. Feeling is a system and a feeling. The one-to-one correspondence between sensation and system can make the information obtained from the sensation correspond correctly with all aspects of the facts and reduce the appearance of large deviations. Consciousness is self-knowledge of self. Sensation transforms external information into self, and self-consciousness of these self with information produces "perception" of the outside world. Therefore, consciousness is the basis of feeling. Consciously have the ability to dream and interpret sensory information. Intuition is the medialess perception and single-level self-knowledge of the id. It is the knowledge of "I" without self-explanation. The concept of "I" in each person's consciousness is derived from the self-intuition. The id knows everything and can create knowledge about everything, because the id is the noumenon, and the noumenon is the id. The ontology produces all existence and contains the knowledge of all existence.
The greatness of imagination is the fundamental reason why we humans are better than other species. Because of imagination, we can create inventions and discover new theorems of things. Without imagination, we humans will not have any development and progress. Einstein can discover the theory of relativity because he can always maintain his innocent imagination. Newton was able to land on the apple, and he imagined the great scientific discovery of universal gravitation because of his imagination.
About schema (schema)
A schema is a rule or procedure for generating images. Schema, according to the general understanding of Western philosophers, is the conceptual network and proposition network used to organize, describe and explain our experience. Cognitive psychologists believe that in the cognitive process, people abstract and summarize the basic structure of the same object or activity, and the block diagram formed in the brain is a schema; Piaget, Rumelhart and others believe that the schema is represented by Consisting of several variables of conceptual elements, it is a knowledge framework and classification system; linguist Carroll regards schema as a structure of semantic memory. Although different subject areas have different expressions of schema, one thing has been reached a consensus: schema is a structure.
How to improve imagination
Improving imagination is very necessary, it will be manifested in all aspects of life, and even related to success! The most basic thing is to watch and think more, but there are still higher requirements. Imagination is a kind of indispensable intelligence, and it is indispensable in human life. The philosopher Diderot said, "Imagination is a characteristic. Without it, one cannot be a poet, nor a philosopher, a thinking person, a rational creature, a real person."
Not long ago According to a survey conducted by the International Assessment Organization for Educational Progress in 21 countries around the world, Chinese children’s numeracy ability ranks first in the world, but their imagination ranks first from the bottom and creativity ranks fifth from the bottom. At the same time, the survey results of an authoritative consulting agency in the United States show that: when children are 1 year old, their imagination and creativity are as high as 96%, but this situation is reversed after going to school at 7 years old. By the age of 10, the child's rich imagination and creativity are only 4% left.
In order to maintain the rich imagination of children, parents should consciously train their children from the little things in life and from childhood.
1. Let the child be the master of life and move his hands and feet. Every nerve in the hands and feet is connected to and innervated by the brain, and different movements of the hands and feet can promote the development of the brain. Research shows that children who are diligent are more creative and imaginative. In life, the child is left to do things on his own. Parents should not take care of the housework that should be done by the child in order to save time for the child to study and do homework. Let him clean up his stationery, bed, bedroom, wash his socks, underwear, carry his schoolbag and so on. You know, when a child is doing something, his brain is also moving.
When a child can take a spoon by himself, train him to eat independently. Adults don’t feed it anymore; let him enjoy the fun of walking, running, knowing the way, remembering the way, and taking risks on new roads, even if you have a car, don’t Let the four wheels become the child’s “legs”; let him access various tools used by adults, such as the toolbox at home, pliers, screwdrivers, wrenches, hammers, scissors, etc. The screws of the chair are loose, try to tighten the four or five-year-old children; let him try on the small furniture assembled; when he needs to boil water, let the child try to turn on the gas stove.
2. Let the child experience as many feelings as possible. Children live more in the visual world every day, and lack experience and exercise in other senses. Touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and inspiration are equally important to imagination and creativity. Let your child wear a blindfold and feel the world by hearing and touch. Listening to a story with your eyes closed will definitely feel different from opening your eyes.
Music can stimulate children's imagination, especially music without lyrics. You can discuss with your children what you hear and feel, is it the fragrance of birds and flowers, or the storm? Is it a walk through the universe or a time travel? This is an exercise on children's auditory imagination.
Nowadays, picture books are colorful and dizzying. But children mostly "watch" passively, but rarely think. You can ask your child to think about it, if you let him paint, what difference will this picture make? What image and color will be added?
3. Often play imagination expansion games with children. It can be unfolded by a specific item in life. For example: What else can the bottle after drinking? Can you play as a ball? Can you make a rolling pin? Will it shrink or enlarge when looking through a glass bottle?
You can also let your children make more assumptions, expand associations and imaginations. For example: If I am a seed, how can I germinate? How will it sprout? What does it look like after germination? Can you make a physical gesture?
In their leisure time, parents may wish to have a "braggering" competition with their children, such as "mouth big-upper lip next to the sky, lower lip against the ground" etc.; they can also discuss or use exaggerated idioms, such as "daring to be bold"- How to pack this day?
4. Reading and imagination. Reading is a combination of continuous, vivid and logical meaning, which can prompt the brain to actively carry out imaginative and creative thinking. Therefore, reading is the soil for cultivating imagination.
Guide children to read more fairy tales, myths, and science fiction. When they are older (to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality), they can read books and articles on scientific inventions, and cultivate their imagination in reading.
Let the child become the "story king", sequel or adapt the story. When the story is finished at the beginning or halfway through, parents may wish to stop and let the children unfold their imaginations, write different plots and endings for the story, and have a "writer" addiction.
So how can adults improve their imagination? Qqu Psychology Network introduces several ways to improve adult imagination:
First, we must accumulate profound knowledge and rich experience. Imagination is nothing more than transforming, recombining, and creating a new image of existing knowledge, appearance and experience. Therefore, the more representations, experiences and knowledge stored in the mind, the easier it is to produce imagination. It is very difficult for an ignorant person to have whimsical ideas frequently.
Second, we must be good at recombining different kinds of representations to form a new image. The artistic image of Zhu Bajie in "Journey to the West" was imagined using this combination method.
Third, we must be good at analyzing the most representative universal characteristics among several objects of the same kind, and then focus on synthesizing them into new objects. The image of "Ah Q" was imagined by Mr. Lu Xun in this way. Ah Q’s prototype “has never dedicated a person, often with his mouth in Zhejiang, his face in Beijing, and his clothes in Shanxi. It is a piece of character.”
Fourth, we must be good at grasping the similarities between different things to imagine. Imagination can be accomplished through metaphors. For example, people often compare "love" to the rain and dew that nourishes the heart, thus concretizing this abstract concept. The key to metaphor is to find the similarities between different things.
Fifth, we must be good at extending the properties suitable for a certain range to the entire level. Imagination can also be done in exaggerated ways. The key to exaggeration is to make the whole concrete by using concrete parts to represent the unknown whole. For example, when people only see the crescent moon, they think they have seen the entire moon. This is to imagine through exaggeration.