These common experiences of dual engagement or multi-tasking illustrate that mental activity is not confined to the online processing of sensory information (e.g. thoughts which are more obviously derived from an external referent and are not especially imaginative in nature); it also has an offline mode in which cognition is initiated spontaneously [3] [5].
He returned to his home in Salem, Ohio, where he had an industrial job and in his spare time painted imaginative watercolours of nature.
Also selected by Ruskin (or otherwise informed by his ideas on the artist), these emphasised Turner's experiential and imaginative response to nature, and endorsed a rigid chronological assessment of the artist's creative ascent, maturity and decline.
It is instead an imaginative marriage of "artificial" nature (the carpet with its English rose pattern) and the real thing — which ends up looking fake, too.
His perceptual and imaginative grasp of the nature of a piece of wax, he tells us, can never match the clarity and distinctness of the idea of the wax that can potentially be attained by purely mental scrutiny (Meditation 2, 31).
But these ideas were part of a singular vision: quirky, imaginative and still grounded in nature, from its ethnic glass bauble necklaces to its solid geometric sandals.
This is admirable, but Mr. Dion's work, though carefully constructed, contributes little to a more imaginative understanding of science and nature.
In England, it was praised by publications as disparate as Nature ("rigorous and imaginative") and the Observer, where the author Geoff Dyer called it "stunningly original" and saw in it "the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius".
Adored and admired by all, Daniel touched the lives of all who knew him with his warmth, inspiring spirit of kindness, and generosity, outgoing and affectionate nature, and his imaginative play.
