ROUGH NOTES
Imagining new things is difficult and rare, but can work within the remit of our mentations. (The way we think.) Something can grow in a particular mental climate.
Ben Jonson looking at his feet. Looking through Wainwright's books, compared to finding things in old comics, looking at ski resorts, the patterns that maps make, golf courses. Can you make yourself imagine?
Songs require imagination too. But why are children so good at imagination, yet they don't seem to write the best songs? Yet songs seem to require juvenilia too.
Flower, inverted. That's an inverted metatrope, and it's just as surprising.
Luminous lichen, farmed on a mountainside to make ink. Is that imaginative? The power of imagination comes from the mental climate, and the mental weather. Cog-clime, a rainbow lightninged from a BBC cloud within a titanium cog. Emclime, enclime.
Remember: the paragraph was invented, and you can do better.
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When you measure everything relative to the mental climate, it becomes different. When you consider playing Go or Chess from the point of view of a machine, that gives you one way of looking at Go or Chess. But when you look at how humans understand Go or Chess—what it feels like for a human to play Go or Chess, that's something completely different. A human can't imitate a computer playing Go or Chess. A human uses different strategies entirely. And those strategies can be coloured by many other things. A human who plays Go and who also does protein folding and plays guitar may have their Go moves coloured by those similar activities. What about playing Go on a mountain somewhere in China? There can be something about Go which really makes it a bold martial art.
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