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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6226981" data-attributes="member: 59082">Manbearcat, I'm a bit confused by your word usage - cognitive styles, resolution, structure, granularity, boundaries, etc. Are you using them within a specific system of thinking or in an individualistic way? My main familiarity with cognitive styles is from psychology and education (I'm involved in both fields professionally). A cognitive style could be related to styles of learning, multiple intelligences, personality types, or something like Kirton's inventory (adaptive vs. innovative).I generally agree with what you're saying, but am not willing to concede the idea that the "space between the boundaries" doesn't impact imagination. But it might not be a matter of how much or how little, but to what degree.Your King and McCarthy analogy is interesting but, I think, a bit obfuscating because they're not quite apples vs. oranges, unless we're willing to to say that all art, all literature, music, etc is "equal" - and there's no degrees of quality or depth. I'm willing to say that we can't judge Miley Cyrus by the same criteria that we judge Miles Davis because they create(d) completely different types of music, but at the same I'm not willing to say that "some prefer Miley and some Miles" and just leave it at that. Miles Davis was a far superior musician than Miley Cyrus is, but more people "prefer" (your word) Miley Cyrus. Is this just a matter of cognitive style or is there something else at work? Dare we delve beyond the realm of "its all subjective" and look at words like "depth" and "quality"?With regards to preference and quality, I think the old phrase "correlation does not imply causation" applies. The fact that more people love Harry Potter than Earthsea doesn't mean that they are equal artistic creations. More people love McDonald's hamburgers than Kobe beef, or Hershey's chocolate bar to Michel Gluizel Grand Lait.(I realize you might think I'm going orthogonal again, but I see it as more isomorphic <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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