Mental Imagery and Superconstruction
Mental Imagery and Superconstruction
Articles exploring how the brain constructs imagined futures using reconstructed past experiences, covering superconstruction theory, mental imagery mechanisms, and limits of imagination based on sensory experience.
mental imagery and superconstructionJul 3, 20263 min
Why You Can’t Imagine a Sensation You’ve Never Felt
Your mind doesn’t invent sensations—it rebuilds them from fragments of experience. Superconstruction isn’t magic. It’s the hippocampus stitching together what you’ve already felt.