On the one hand, this is clearly disgraceful behaviour; on the other, it's hard not to be impressed by the combination of dedication and odium involved: imagine disliking It's Different For Girls so much, your hatred can find expression only through seeking out a dead swan to haul at its author.
The experimental conditions involved imagining an action (one item from the VMIQ-2) using internal visual imagery, external visual imagery, kinesthetic imagery and a perceptual control condition involved looking at a fixation cross.
Experiment 1 involved imagining a letter inside a circle, followed by a decision concerning which of two highlighted portions of the circle would contain the greater proportion of the letter.
Dez, however, insisted that the treatment be continued and, over time, learned to counteract the imagery through a meditative technique that involved imagining scenes of sickness and torture as the teen beauties were projected before him.
If thousands of people can close bridges and tunnels while protesting in New York City, if thousands more can halt highway traffic in California and Chicago, if over 100 cities in the U.S. and Canada can stage rallies and get people involved, imagine what we could collectively do if we used the power of the pen and not the sword.
On Egan's view, this distinctive mental state can be invoked to explain a number of cases that other philosophers have described as involving imagined content that gives rise to belief-typical responses (particularly delusions, see section 6.3 below).
But a lot of good judging involves imagining other cultures, other points of view: what it's like to be a woman, for example".
But most of all, it seems to me that choosing a baby's name involves imagining a truly separate individual and giving him or her the freedom to be their own person.
It involves imagining a fully grown adult, leading a complex life with all its joys and sadnesses, not just a pink chubby infant in a Babygro who can make any joke seem cute.
The tool for this, which Michels and Stutz teach to those who are hoping to win an award or who are about to submit a script for approval, involves imagining yourself falling backward into the sun, saying "I am willing to lose everything" as you are consumed in a giant fireball, after which, transformed into a sunbeam, you profess, "I am infinite".
