The first section of the chapter defines the main terms in this argument.
Assimilating recent neuroscientific research on the evolution of modern brain shape and on the brain’s default mode network, we can now say with confidence that the imagination is a neurological reality, that it is lodged in specific parts of the brain, that it consists of an identifiable set of components and processes, that these components and processes have adaptive functions, and that in fulfilling its functions imagination has been a major causal factor in making Homo sapiens the dominant species on earth. The purpose of this chapter is to explain how imaginative verbal artifacts are produced by the imagination and in turn influence the imagination.
This is a chapter in EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON IMAGINATIVE CULTURE, edited by Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson, and me.
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