Up next in the Kurosawa watch-a-thon: "The Idiot." (No, it is not about the 2016 elections.)
Did you ever stumble upon a good explanation of the differences between visualizing things in your head vs. seeing them?
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The former, e.g. when reading a book or dreaming, seems so wonderfully selective.
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Esp. with books, imagination requires "theory of mind." Fascinating subject: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind …
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Books are also very much memory palaces, which somehow the brain loves loves loves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci …
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This would make a good New Yorker essay, "Imagination & Words: Cognitive Structures That Make Reading Books So Satisfying."
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