| The way I would look at that debate is to conclude that we have at least two aspects of our mind - imagination and logic.
One aspect then shall romance the other in a kind of mating ritual. If it happens that the imagination and the logic merge together in a kind of marrage we end up a united mind that becomes creative and thus, productive. Resulting in the ability to invent things that are new for our culture, and likewise the unity of those two aspects can produce or manifest new concepts about life which we call philosophy.
Once the imagination has seeded the womb of logic it can generate ideas that in turn spur on the evolutionary nature of ideas. Which process allows an idea to survive and to become stronger or better adapted from generation to generation.
Also, or in addition to that, we have the minds of different people mating in marrage with one another, one person might implant a seed of imagination or logic into the mind of another person, to cause such productivity as a birthing process for ideas. Some ideas manifest in that manner are adopted by the greater culture or else they are aborted before they can live out their exsistence and reach full blooming. None the less that process insures a continued mixture in the DNA construction of any momentum in thinking or what we call 'learnng'. Preventing the inbreeding of just one idea due to the mixing in of alternative options.
Without the mating of those two aspects of the mind the identity remains stale. Or what is termed "single minded". The imagination alone being nothing more then fantasy, and the logic alone being nothing more then being stuck in the rut of just repeating the same-o facts without any changes in the momentum taking place due to the novelty input of imagination.
Which could cause culture to basically stand still without growth or evolution - resulting in a dark age where enlightenment is taboo relative to the tasks of learning from the marrages of our logic with our imaginaton. This often is effected by the raping of minds by the dominate philosophy of a culture, to force the reproduction of that image.
So that is that, from out of the blue by Technosoul. |