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Excellent ideas Marie.

One naive question though so that I can see things as you did:

What's the exact difference between "images are no longer projected onto a screen or created by external devices. Instead, they are born within the viewer’s mind, guided by a narrative that stimulates the imagination. The story becomes a unique co-creation, a dialogue between the proposed narrative and the viewer’s inner world" and reading a book? Because if you hadn't mentioned Cognitive Cinema I would have said that what you describe is the exact experience I have when reading a book.

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Very good observation !

but reading a book is an action and your experience a consequence of that action

In Cognitive Cinema there is no stimulus just direct action in your imagination

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Let me understand this better, because while it may be obvious to you, I do not feel it is very clear for us reading about it for the first time.

A few answers, from you and Marie may help clarify this fascinating subject:

a) Did you try Cognitive Cinema yourself?

b) You say that in Cognitive Cinema there is no stimulus, just direct action.

Assuming there can be action without stimulus - how would that look like to an outside viewer?

c) Are you saying in other words, that Cognitive Cinema is the act of making a film in your head - that is imagining, as we normally call it - or are you saying something else?

Without a detailed description of the Cognitive Cinema experience is not easy to understand what you are trying to describe, unless again is something we are already very familiar with, which is "running films inside our heads" and which we do all the time. (But there is always a stimulus. It's not an involuntary consciousness behaviour.)

So, I am not really sure at this point, of what Cognitive Cinema really is, but I would like to understand this concept.

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