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[timelets]

“By the word synthesis, in its most general signification, I understand the process of joining different representations to each other and of comprehending their diversity in one cognition. This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time).”

“Synthesis, generally speaking, is, as we shall afterwards see, the mere operation of the imagination — a blind but indispensable function of the soul, without which we should have no cognition whatever, but of the working of which we are seldom even conscious. ”

--- Immanuel Kant. “The Critique of Pure Reason.”

Mind is a distributed imagination machine. Also see, Why Information Grows.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Wow. Like a discovery.

[timelets]

Both discovery and construction. It's very much in the spirit of category theory.