Our Imagination has Limits, Sad to Say…

You can’t imagine yourself without imagination —

The two contextual meaning are true: if you have no imagination, you cannot imagine who you are. And if you have imagination, you cannot imagine yourself in a state where no imagination is present. The latter is so because of the first: in a state without imagination you cannot be self-conscious, or have a sense of self — namely, you are not you!

What else is out of bounds for our imagination?

Plenty — come to think about.

We can’t imagine a molecule, or a grain of sand, to be endowed with imagination. So the building blocks which self assembled over the eons to become you and me, have acquired imagination as part of the process known as Darwinian evolution.  Darwin has taught us that we only acquire survival traits according to his model, now widely accepted as holy scriptures.  Our imagination, therefore, is a survival tool, and anything that is out there in the great vast land of reality, which has no survival impact on us — our imagination has no engagement gears to grasp it, and, so, soaked within our Unbound Ignorance, we think that what we can imagine, is all there is.  Sci-Fi writers — sorry…

Are we doomed?

Not necessarily —

But to hunt for the missing reality we need to climb a steep mountain. We need to go BACKWARDS — unlearn, recapture our more pristine state, scrub our brain from our recent evolutionary steps…  It would be like, say, a muscle cell, realizing that not all cells are muscles, but in order to learn what else a cell can be, the muscle cell must undo its differentiation, restore its embryonic state, and take a different route.  This is infinitesimally close to impossible, and so is our task ahead.

Ergo — let’s get started right now, even before your eyes lay on the closing line of this blog-

You procrastinate…