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This site has been reorganised and few new pages have been added. Few others have been, however, updated and expanded on. Since the full understanding of concepts expressed depends on other concepts expressed on other pages - I would suggest that the reader follows the outline of the site with occasional repeats of previous pages if needed.

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• Imagination is Greater than Knowledge

  • Introduction

  • Mystery - or Is it really all in our brain?

  • Our Description of the World and Ourselves within it

    • Idea - or What are the concepts of "our description of the world and ourselves within it"?

      • Chicken (a yummy distraction)

    • Complexity (The Theory of) - or How we are much more than sums of our parts?

      • Quanta (some playful thoughts thrown into chaotic arena of quantum mechanics)

    • Simplicity - or How complexity of our descriptive methods simplify "our description of the world and ourselves within it"?

      • Challenge - or Is the Maxwell's daemon throwing into turmoil basic laws of physics?

  • Perception - or Could a currently prevailing picture of passive perception (input, processing in our brain, output) ever make sense?

    • Expectation - or How we perceive the world and ourselves within it based on expectations generated by "our description of the world and ourselves within it"?

    • Cause & Effect- or Is the basic concept of "our description of the world and ourselves within it" only an approximation?

    • Illusion - or A wonderful attempt by Tor Nørretranders to address the phenomenon we call consciousness and some thoughts of mine.

    • Out There - or Do we really see things out there as they are?

  • Culture- or A transfer of accumulated knowledge by other means than our genetic makeup.

    • Language- or Inseparable part of our culture that allows for the transfer of the accumulated knowledge in combination with music and our genetic makeup.

    • Music- or Inseparable part of our culture that allows for the transfer of the accumulated knowledge of another kind in combination with language and our genetic makeup. (And much more.)

    • Orchestra - or melodies-R-us. Did you ever consider yourself as a music?

    • Togetherness- or we are all in this together...

    • Diversity - or Why we need to preserve varieties of "our descriptions of the world and ourselves within it" and varieties of our cultures?

  • Thought - or Are our thoughts so nicely ordered as many of us believe?

    • Imagination - or How detachment of "our description of the world and ourselves within it" from "real time" may bring beautiful results?

  • Consciousness - or Could we finally demystify the phenomenon and agree on what we are talking about?

  • Knowledge - or Our largely non-conscious body of knowledge accumulated through millennia in "our description of the world and ourselves within it".

  • Model- or Could we finally agree on what we are talking about?

    • Information- or A limited freedom our thought might be having in deciding what is true, undecided or false.

  • Why - or Why we need to improve "our description of the world and ourselves within it".

• About Me - or A little bit about me and what I am doing now.

  • Resume - or How I present myself professionally.

  • University of Zagreb - or A brief history of the university at which I obtained my degree.

• Site Map - or Well - you are looking at it.

• Glossary - or Brief explanation of concepts expressed on these pages and concepts that lost their sense in "my description of the world and myself within it".

• Foreword (to fifth edition)- or Few words on my current progress and preoccupations.

  • Foreword (to fourth edition)

  • Foreword (to third edition)

  • Foreword (to second edition)

  • Thanks - or My thanks to various people and organisations that in various ways helped this web-site.

Copyright 2000-2005. The concepts expressed on these pages, unless attributed to others, may not be used without explicit permission from Damir Ibrisimovic.