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[HydrogenBond]

In a physics forum I posted a topic the physics of the imagination. The human imagination is not confined to cause and affect or even the laws of probability. The example I used is, one can imagine themselves winning every lottery while flying in space without a machine. The mechanism of consciousness, which is not fully understood, can create output affects that are not under the laws of nature that we currently know. If we could hock up the brain and project this on a monitor we could record this affect.

For the ancient egyptians to make complex engineering like the pyramids, that could not depend on the rational laws of the time or probability. Even now it sort of defies reason, which is why we have this topic. But it falls in the realm of what is possible in the imagination. I said unconscious affects wired into this part of the brain.

The way to picture it is a bunch of religious zealots, who at one level are aware of the world around them but also compelled by the irrationality of their collective beliefs. Within this collective trance or delusion, their imagination is caught in a flux. The design and construction is happening to them via unconscious compulsion. Maybe they called it the gods acting through them and will power.

The artist in the trance creates a final result without planning or even be able to ever reproduce it again. This is hard for the modern mind to grasp who would like to project reason and logic before it was even invented by the Greeks. Their skill set was out of their expected time element. Their art is fairly low quality compared to this engineering feat and was more indicative of another time, which is not a problem in the imagination.