Imagination, the Junkyard of the Mind

The subject of the imagination represents a challenge to all disciplines, but especially to philosophy and anthropology, which take human cognition and behavior as their subjects. The ubiquity of imagination in all human activities suggests that this faculty is at the core of human species identity,...

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Published in:Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture 2017-10, Vol.1 (2), p.87-94
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