Things you can't imagine.

COLTRANE · (#1 (**permalink**))

What happened before time began
What exists beyond the physical limits of the universe

Captain_Fact · (#2 (**permalink**))

Anything can be imagined, whether you are imagining something close to reality or not is a different matter.

Saida.M · (#3 (**permalink**))

COLTRANE wrote:

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What happened before time began
What exists beyond the physical limits of the universe

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Perhaps there was no beginning?confused3

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Perhaps there is no end?confused3

Peacemaker · (#4 (**permalink**))

Depends on what's in a person's subconscious in the first place. If that subconscious lacks certain images, then the imagination can't use that imagery to stimulate thought.

It's why people lie and makes things up, or divert attention from somethingwhen they don't understand, i.e save face. They create new imagesin the mind using theold images in their subconscious to cover up their lack of knowledge in the physical for the most part. Denial imagery which gets projected in one form our another. A simple word for it would be bullshit.

So what can't I imagine? Anything that I have no empirical, inferential or even propositionalknowledge of a thingthatwould bebeyond my speculation.

However since I'm all knowing then my answer would have to be nothing.

Peacemaker · (#5 (**permalink**))

COLTRANE wrote:

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What happened before time began

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What happens when you sleep?. Can't you fit a whole days of events into a mere second when thinking about what you did at some point during last week.

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The mind can stretch. bend, andmix uptimeandview a whole day of events in a single glance. Time in the mind is suspended time. In our dreams we jump from scene to scene faster than we can notice. When awake things just seemcontinuous because of the constant stream outer stimuli capturing our phyiscal senses and attention. Basically our humanidea ofabeginning and the end are purely based on the fact we're physicial beings with little to no idea about time, which is a physical phenomenon only. To answer the question, before time, now was continuous existence, and it still is, but in different circumstances, one involving physical matter and time and the rest of the laws of the universe.

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What exists beyond the physical limits of the universe

Hardly unimaginable, thousands of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and evenSpiritualitybooks explore this area. The possiblities are almost infinite. However considering what I said about the mind, you'd think your own mind and it'sthought processeswere beyond the physical limits of the universe.

Captain_Fact · (#6 (**permalink**))

I do not believe a person can willingly deny something, you cannot in one moment believe in one thing, then decide to believe in another. A person can decide that something is irrelevant and not bother thinking about it, either due to it's apparent uselessness or because somone has lied to him making him believe that thinking about this thing is a pointless activity. Though if a person has once seen the evidence nad believes in something, he cannot willinglydeny the truth.

I also do not believe that time in the mind is suspended time. It takes time to think. If you've ever noticed, when someone tells a joke to a group of people, there is a brief pause before everyone laughs. I have observed many instances when it takes time for someone to think and I would assume that when you review a day's events you take time to do this also. It is possible that 2 processes in yourneo-cortex can take place seperately and 'join together' afterwards.

I agree with your perspective on how we view the physical processes in our world and how they are engrained in our minds, possibly barring potential creative thought. In particular this would be useful in physics, where an actual understanding ofinobservable physical processes, as we understand the newtonian physics of our everyday world, could be very useful for a brain storming physicist.