Embodied Imaginations: Fictional Characters Making Experiential Crossings into Real Life: An Unusual Phenomenon - Hardcover

Ramesh, Chidambaram

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9357604073 ISBN 13: 9789357604079

Verlag: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The science behind the writers’ experience of characters developing their own will and taking objective forms. Many writers have the experience that their characters have evolved their own personalities. They start to tell their own stories, and sometimes they could even rebel against the author’s ideas for them and change the course of the whole plot. That is not all, though. Sometimes, literary characters assume objective appearances which are visible not just to the creators, but also to others and manifesting in the real world. These experiences raise several interesting philosophical and scientific questions. Have the writers unwittingly created quasi-conscious entities by the power of their minds? Can thoughts manifest as something tangible that can be seen, heard, or even touched? How genuine are the contents of the mind? Embodied Imaginations explores these questions, highlighting the results of an investigation on this fascinating topic, stemming from personal anecdotes of many writers. Providing scientific evidence for the existences of these mental constructs, the goal is to collect robust and reliable building blocks that may help to deconstruct perceptions and provide answers to this phenomenon. The book attempts to give modern science a place where spiritual, philosophical and mystical threads can be interwoven. Efforts have been made to corroborate theoretical claims with experimental evidence, contributing to research in cognitive psychology to determine the role of imagination in creating external reality. This book will introduce you to the mysterious and profound part of creative writing that you never knew existed before.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9357604073
• ISBN 13: 9789357604079
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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