Imagination is Evolutionary

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

-Albert Einstein

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

-Orison Swett Marden

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

-Carl Sagan

All of these quotes have one thing in common; the ideal that imagination is progression of mankind. In my opinion imagination is an evolutionary process. As one explores their imagination and exposes their ideas to the world, it creates a gateway for others to build on to that idea, reconstruct it, or erase it. Think of the use of the wheel now. It is used for so many purposes, from driving cars all the way to construction work pulleys.

Imagination is used in everything a human does, even though a person may not identify they are doing it, imagination coexists in every humans’ actions, whether consciously or subconsciously. For example if someone identifies a problem they consciously are using their imagination to configure a solution. However subconscious aspects of imagination in the use of daily actions, such as walking also play an important role in human’s lives. For example when one takes a footstep they imagine their self safely making that footstep before they take it, despite how unreasonable that sounds, there is a possibility that the floor could collapse under them. If people were for sure that the floor would collapse when they walk they would be hesitant to walk. So in every action humans’ imagination is used first.