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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'What do powers do when they are not manifested?' and 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)'

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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination

17260	Imagination is just weakened sensation [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: Imagination is nothing else but sense decaying or weakened by the absence of the object.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 4.25.07)
	A reaction: This sounds more like memory than imagination. He needs to say something about unusual combinations of memories, I would have thought.

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

19373	A 'conatus' is an initial motion, experienced by us as desire or aversion [Hobbes, by Arthur,R]
	Full Idea: Hobbes' notion of 'conatus' is a 'beginning of motion' - a motion through a point of space in an instant of time. In a human subject this is experience as desire or aversion. It thus forms a bridge between physics and psychology.
	From: report of Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], p.178) by Richard T.W. Arthur - Leibniz 3 'Worlds'
	A reaction: This sounds rather like the primitive concept of a power which I like, but the term seems to be used very vaguely, and never discussed carefully. The idea provoked Leibniz to connect physical force with mental life.