The science of imagination - Andrey Vyshedskiy

Imagine, for a second, a duck teaching a French class. A ping-pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin balancing a pineapple. You probably haven’t actually seen any of these things. But you could imagine them instantly. How does your brain produce an image of something you’ve never seen? Andrey Vyshedskiy details the neuroscience of imagination.

Lesson by Andrey Vyshedskiy, animation by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat.

[Soooooooooooonicable]

A video about brains, made by brains, and watched by brains.

[byronhart]

I love brains. They're so complicated and we know so little about them. I'm excited to see what we'll discover about brains in the next 50 years that I'm alive. We're only just starting out on what I'm sure will be an incredible explosion of knowledge about the brain.

[glennasmith]

This channel never fails to impress me.

[faesmith]

I DID A PROJECT LAST YEAR FOR MY SCIENCE CLASS CALLED "THE SCIENCE BEHIND IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY" AND MY TEACHER ACTUALLY ENDED UP CALLING MY MOM TO TELL HER HOW AWESOME IT WAS

Edit: sorry bout the yelling, I was an eighth-grader with no self control. I’m graduated now lol

[luckyyuri]

I absolutely loved the animation. It's strange but it has character, simplicity and it does a perfect job illustrating the narrative.

[jeffryc.larson]

"Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known." - Napoleon Hill

[quietkid]

I’ve lived in my head most of the time for a long time and over time I’ve been able to make an entire fictional world. It functions exactly like this one but with different people (people I’ve created in my head). This way I can escape from life. Problem is I’m unable to use my senses while I’m fully focused on that world… it takes a lot to snap me out of it before my mind lets me out on its own. My mind releases me back into reality once the trigger or stressor is gone. I started this as a kid to numb the pain of physical abuse. It worked. It took a lot of pain for me to notice it.

[boy]

i wonder what does a person born blind imagine about

[arshad]

The brain is truly amazing. Everything about it truly leaves me in awe.

[sursr]

So that's what happened in Pen Pineapple Apple Pen.

[khorps]

is that why it's hard to imagine an alien creature that doesn't have features like a terrestrial creature or doesn't look like a terrestrial creature?

[toycorpukebayworldwideship]

I have ADHD, so my imagination can go a little wild at times, but I've always pictured it as a third eye.

[cooldudeg]

It's so weird, I have a hard time retaining anything I learn about the brain or thought, because while the information keeps coming I'm thinking too much about my very process of thinking.

[michaelampm]

Is this why I can imagine love even though I'm lonely

[lulaklaw]

Sometimes I feel like other people can see vivid, clear pictures when they imagine things.. is it just me who only 'sees' abstract thoughts and kind-of exsisting images??

[erinbrady]

had to pause “i may destroy you” to see if this was a real video. i’ll check the rest of this video out later

[mcpaws]

Your accent is SOOOO relaxing and so calm

[Laindal]

What a great era are we living, where you have almost ALL mankind knowledge easily displayed and explained in free platforms at any time. This could be the years of the "second discovery of fire".

[vinyltracks]

I'm so baffled when ever I force my self to imagine it doesn't really work.

[Owhha]

I don't even have to close my eyes to imagine. I can see them without seeing them?