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Originally posted by Thagrastay
If We are what we perceive, what becomes of those who lack real imagination?
I don't mean that in a glib sense, either.
There are people who, it seeems, explode with imagination, and others for whom pragmatism is their virtue, but creativity is their lack. What becomes of them? Where do they fall on the Perception/relaity scale?
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Hmmm. Really unimaginative people aren't necessarily doomed to parrot the perceptions of others, though many do. There are those individuals, though not common, who are both pragmatic and intellectually honest. If they accept a perception from someone else and they see a point where it doesn't make sense, they'll investigate it. And if the inconsistency disproves the believe, they'll trash it and look up another one. They may not originate believes and ideas, but they can still be intelligent consumers of them.
You find a lot of this in the engineering and software world. Frankly, there are a lot of people in those fields who are not real imaginative but do a solid piece of work. Inconsistencies in what they've been told _really bother them,_ whether the subject is technical, political, or philosophical. They may not be good at coming up with new ideas, but they're great at tearing down defective ideas that are presented to them as truth. This is not always perceived as a positive personality trait, but it is much preferable to being a blind sheep.