Can we believe our eyes? When we see something we do not doubt the truthfulness of what we see: this is night and that is a monster in the closet. Later it appears that we were deceived — the wardrobe monster, from the evening, has transformed into only mother's clothes, night has become day. It seems imagination played an evil joke on us and we've seen more than we've been shown. Can we accomplish this without imagination? Without imagination, perception becomes a simple collection of spots, meaningless signals of light and dark which one cannot apprehend or memorize..
But what if we feed the perception some unfinished object which will never be completed, like the Babylonian tower, what will happen? We stare into a broken picture, catch the recognizable details of the object, which best resemble life, and see something else. But these details still do not correlate with one another. They do not add oup. We see patterns of a familiar place, but the scene is all wrong. We know that we perceive some kind of space but cannot imagine it. Our imagination doesnot fulfill its task and based only on this failure we can guess that it exists.
But what if we feed the perception some unfinished object which will never be completed, like the Babylonian tower, what will happen? We stare into a broken picture, catch the recognizable details of the object, which best resemble life, and see something else. But these details still do not correlate with one another. They do not add oup. We see patterns of a familiar place, but the scene is all wrong. We know that we perceive some kind of space but cannot imagine it. Our imagination doesnot fulfill its task and based only on this failure we can guess that it exists.