It has been said that what separates humans, _homo sapiens_, from all other living creatures is our ability to think abstractly – that is, the ability to create, with our imagination, abstract concepts that can be shared with others.
No longer bound to the constraints of a reality defined solely by causal relationships in a physical realm, Whitehead flung open the door to the emergent potential of unbounded abstract imagination.
Imagination that led Alonzo Church to reimagine calculus.
Imagination that led Jorge Luis Borges to reimagine storytelling.
Imagination that led David Bohm to reimagine quantum physics.
The list goes on, but let's pause for a moment and briefly explore these three examples, each of which had an important impact on the dawning of this new era.
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