Like some methodologizing William Wordsworth, he places his faith in the redemptive capacity of the imagination.
While we may never truly understand the nature of our cosmic order, he says, the attempts to map it do reveal the incredible capacity of our imagination; and trying to unravel what the Universe really is may help us solve problems closer to home.
The 'and then' is currently beyond the capacity of human imagination to conjure, but it may entail radical human manipulation of evolution, the emergence of super-humanoids, space travel and contact with life on planets elsewhere.
Wright's causal chain was that the mental capacity of moral imagination (built by natural selection) lets us recognize win-win opportunities (game theory), which, in turn, causes the moral circle to expand (via religion).
In an era of cinema where drama is primarily used to provoke an emotional response, rather than to stimulate thought or engage one's capacity for imagination, the finer subtleties of a novel are often lost in a dizzying haze of bright lights, fast cars and CGI upon transferral to film, Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia being just one of a cornucopia of examples of this that come to mind.
Out there, in eternity, the human version of living stands as one of the richest, valuable in its capacity for imagination and spontaneity, gentleness and courage.
For a sense of security, I had sacrificed my beliefs, my faith in love, my open heart, my childlike capacity for imagination and belief.
Leslie had been conducting work on the abilities of normal 2-year-olds to understand pretend play and argued that autistic children showed deficits in their capacity for imagination.
Openness, empirical sensitivity and the capacity for achieving 'flying leaps' of imagination, are to be preferred to procedural adherence in the research process.
Capello also expressed annoyance at England's performance, which was desperately short of imagination and a capacity to keep possession.
