Would you live in a World without Fiction?
Forget Science Fiction, Fantasy, RPG, Comic books, Movies, Video Games, Myths, Story telling, creative writing and all those things that inspire us and excite us. No imagination at all. Picture a world of pure logic and fact. No imagination or even magic. Just pure rational thought and deductive reasoning.
Would you live in such place?
Re: Would you live in a World without Fiction?
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarfCan such a world advance? Advancement entails the pursuit of a fictional "better state of being", I don't believe that such a world could advance. So, no, I would not live in that world.
Forget Science Fiction, Fantasy, RPG, Comic books, Movies, Video Games, Myths, Story telling, creative writing and all those things that inspire us and excite us. No imagination at all. Picture a world of pure logic and fact. No imagination or even magic. Just pure rational thought and deductive reasoning.Would you live in such place?
If you were to have a world based purely on logic then the whole world would be morons since imagination is necesarry in the learning process. We wouldn't even be able to walk or talk without imaginative thinking. And logic has it's need of imagination, even in mathematics: "if", "then", "imagine a triangle" etc.
So no.
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
I've always held that Eistein made his discoveries by the use of mathematics and not fiction.
But the idea had to come from somewhere.
Even if it's something like changing one number in an equation, it's because of someone wondering what would happen and being curious about the answer.