There were always books taking up a corner of the bookstore — self-help books that endlessly varied a single message: “Imagine vividly, and it becomes real.”
For a long time, I never quite believed that worn old self-help mantra. No matter how concretely I drew the picture in my head, in front of the hard wall of the physical world, it felt like nothing more than a psychological consolation. The kind of story that says if you want it badly enough, something will help was, to me, a temporary anesthetic for the harshness of reality.
And yet, that ordinary, worn-out sentence is now operating in an entirely different way. A story that lived inside the realm of will and belief has become a very concrete operation — one that produces visible results in front of you.
I type the scene I want into the empty box on the screen. The shape of what comes back from the other side of the monitor changes completely depending on how concretely and vividly I forge my imagination into language.
We are now in the era of grand-imagination. The unbelievable stories that used to be consumed mostly in old bestsellers are now settling — far too naturally — into daily life inside the technology interfaces we encounter every day.
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The resolution of imagination determines the resolution of the result.
Type vaguely, get a vague result. Describe with care, and a precise object appears.
This is the structure: the resolution of imagination directly determines the resolution of reality. Think vaguely, get a vague result; describe with care, and a precise object proportional to that care appears in front of you. That those old sentences — once dismissed as pure mentalism — would, paired with technological progress, become complete fact, was something I genuinely never imagined.
I keep chewing on the worn-out phrase I had set aside as nonsense. What you imagine, you becomeis no longer a question about an individual’s state of mind. It is — at this very moment — quietly waiting, alongside a blinking cursor, for our next input.