The Logic Between Reality and Imagination: A 2,500-Year Journey Through Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Mind's Hidden Powers (Between Thought and World, Band 1) - Softcover

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THE LOGIC BETWEEN REALITY AND IMAGINATION
For everyone who has ever wondered if they're imagining this dedication.
What is the boundary between what you see and what you dream? Between memory and invention? Between the world outside and the world within?
This book embarks on an expedition through 2,500 years of philosophy, science, and cognitive discovery to map the treacherous territory where reality meets imagination. From Aristotle's phantasia to cutting-edge neuroscience, from Buddhist dream yoga to artificial intelligence, we trace how human consciousness constructs the world it inhabits.
Inside you'll discover:

• Ancient Foundations: How Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Spinoza wrestled with the mind's capacity to create what isn't there
• Neuroscience Frontiers: The fusiform gyrus "reality signal," the hippocampus as mental time machine, and why vivid dreams feel indistinguishable from waking life
• Varieties of Mind: Aphantasia (mind-blindness), hyperphantasia, synesthesia, autism, and the spectrum of human imaginative experience
• Practical Power: How imagination heals trauma, drives scientific discovery, and shapes political possibility
• Future Horizons: Virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, and the ethics of technologically augmented consciousness

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