how is the brain able to give us images when we are imagining something?
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My stab at your Q: The brain resolves familiarity from past input (via eyes/other senses) to be used again in the present. Every time you experience something your brain determines if it’s already familiar or exposed to something new. Then intricately resolves/banks info for future use.
For example, if you’ve consumed an ice-cream cone dessert in the past, your brain assigns it all the descriptors (maybe upward of 100’s) is knows to it for future experience with it. That means you can still recall the memory if a few descriptors change because it recalls enough of the others. Saying you can see it is focusing enough on all the descriptors to confidently prepare yourself to experience it again (even though your not going to). When that memory recall is focused enough, and focusing on the sense you want to recall it from, will usually result in imagining. If you haven’t consumed one though but heard enough descriptors, your brain will assimilate that approximation in the same fashion. Use same scenario but decide the flavor of ice-cream is tooth-paste flavored. You know that flavor from other experiences and understand shapes/cone/visual (if you’ve seen ice-cream cones before) and imagine something it could be like. The brain is just a recollection system, utilizing and storing vast amounts of sensory inputs and motor controls. Through voodoo, aliens, and the ten commandments allows them to coexist and operate it’s vessel.
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