When I am caught in thought, I am – in a sense – caught in the imagination of my senses. I am caught in the story created by mental images (sight), words (sight, hearing), and mental imaginations of sound (hearing).
– From a previous post.
It’s as if the mind borrows from the sensory input, and makes it into an imagination on order to process, explore, and navigate the world. Each sense is mirrored by imagination, and used to think – not only in words, but also in images and reflections of other senses.
I imagine that, for instance, a bat may imagine using a reflection of sonar senses. It may even dream using imagined sonar input. And possible beings from other places in the Universe may have their own quite different senses, and use an imagination of these to process, navigate, and think.
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Initial notes…..
– mental images -> visual
– words -> mental images (of what they refer to + the words themselves) + sound
– mental imagination of sound -> sounds
– touch, taste, smell, movement etc. too (although perhaps to lesser extent?)