{"id":32718,"date":"2016-12-15T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-neuroscience-behind-imagination"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:48","slug":"the-neuroscience-behind-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-neuroscience-behind-imagination","title":{"rendered":"The neuroscience behind imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7uXAlXdTe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trying to simplify and understand imagination isn\u2019t that easy. Should be a great read for my tech friends trying to replicate this process.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagination\u2026 we can all imagine things \u2013 even things we have never seen before. Even things that don\u2019t exist. How do our brains achieve that?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a duck teaching a French class. A Ping-Pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin balancing a pineapple.<\/p>\n<p>You probably haven\u2019t actually seen any of these things but you could imagine them instantly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break-it-down.net\/neuroscience-behind-imagination\/\">http:\/\/www.break-it-down.net\/neuroscience-behind-imagination\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to simplify and understand imagination isn\u2019t that easy. Should be a great read for my tech friends trying to replicate this process. Imagination\u2026 we can all imagine things \u2013 even things we have never seen before. Even things that don\u2019t exist. How do our brains achieve that? Imagine a duck teaching a French class. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59456,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions\/59456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}