how is the brain able to give us images when we are imagining something?
In: Biology
As far as my humble understanding, our ability to imagine a “future” version of ourselves is evolutionary. Us being able to imagine what may happen to a future us, and understanding it may hurt us later, i.e. eating all of our food now instead of saving some, or taking an unnecessary physical risk, would be detrimental to our survival. So this is a trait we adopted that helped our survival.
As far as the intensity of imagery of our visualization seems to be related to our individual capacity for creativity.
The science on exactly how this happens..🤷🏼♀️
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