Help us recall knowledge of the past

When interviewing war survivors historians

have to be aware about the imperfections
of memory - survivors may subconsciously can be influenced by our emotional state
emphasise certain parts of their experience
and downplay others because some events
are simply recalled in more detail than
Limitations can be highly unreliable as not all aspects
others
of our imagination are based off real
evidence
Memory is inconsistent; some events are
remembered in much more vivid detail than
Limitations can be unrealistic and limited to ones own
others, and this can inject bias into the way Memory
Memory and Imagination perceptions and knowledge
we know about the world and the people
around us.

Memory is imperfect; it is always

conditioned by our physical and cultural Imagination Broaden our perspectives and make
circumstances - we may selectively and predictions or hypotheses
subconsciously forget experiences that we
no longer want to be associated with.
Imagination is based on our previous
Artists need to use imagination to produce
experiences and knowledge. For one who
As memory can fade and details can be a work of creative significance; without
has experienced the traumas of nuclear
forgotten, memories passed down from imagination there would be no originality in
bombs, they may imagine the next world
previous generation cannot be fully trusted art and no room for art forms to evolve, for
war to be the end of the world. However,
Advantages trends in art to change over time.
the knowledge generated by this individual
cannot be fully trusted
For example, impressionist artists were
For example, you cannot record down Memory works together with sense creative in the way they portrayed light in
observations in a science experiment perception - without memory we would their works (paradigm shift)
without first storing them in your short term immediately forget the things we perceive
memory

Fuels imagination or innovation Advantages

For example in science, without the Imagination can help us put knowledge
knowledge of previous energy generating together in new ways. For example, people
methods, more sustainable technologies can know and develop a theory of
cannot be invented. electricity, but imagination is required to
use that knowledge to invent the lightbulb.
Can be used to pass on to others Creativity and imagination have played a
huge role in many major scientific
discoveries, technological advances, and
For example, through books or diaries groundbreaking works of art.

For this reason many tech companies are

looking for employees with not just
knowledge, but also imagination - their
ability to apply that knowledge to reinvent
the wheel