Imagination
This quote from Elias Canetti, I think really solves what we're discussing: “A crowd exists as long as it has an unattainable goal. The image is acquired and there is nowhere else to go.” Setting off images allows crowds to condense their energy somewhere.
How Expectations and Conditioning Shape Our Response to Placebos
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Stephen Asma: Evolution of Imagination and Creativity
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Stephen Asma, Adaptive Imagination: Toward a Mythopoetic Cognitive Science - PhilArchive
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The imagination works on the threshold that runs between light and dark, visible and invisible, quest and question, possibility and fact. The imagination is the great friend of possibility. Where the imagination is awake and alive fact never hardens or closes but remains open, inviting you to new thresholds of possibility and creativity.