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Scientists should develop a medicine that boosts imagination
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Remember! Drugs and Medicine are different. Also, debate seriously and don't be rude to each other.
Round 1
Imagination is at the core of invention. From space travel to curing diseases, imaginative thinking has always been the seed of progress. Scientists like Albert Einstein and artists like Leonardo da Vinci didn’t just work hard—they imagined what no one else had.
If we can develop a safe and ethical medicine that boosts imagination, we open doors to solving global problems faster and more creatively. Think of climate change, medical cures, or sustainable technology—all of these require imaginative solutions.
For example, Elon Musk imagined colonizing Mars and made SpaceX a reality. Imagine what millions of people with enhanced imaginative capacity could achieve.
If we can develop a safe and ethical medicine that boosts imagination, we open doors to solving global problems faster and more creatively. Think of climate change, medical cures, or sustainable technology—all of these require imaginative solutions.
For example, Elon Musk imagined colonizing Mars and made SpaceX a reality. Imagine what millions of people with enhanced imaginative capacity could achieve.
In conclusion, a medicine that boosts imagination wouldn’t just benefit individuals—it would push humanity forward.
Imagination vs Reasoning
Science is a devotion to reasoning. Hypotheses may require abstract thinking but lets list some traits of people that the so to say cult of mainstream science shuns:
- Highly creative, in spite of reasoning against it
- Highly risk-philic despite many reasons not to be
- Astrology believers as opposed to astronomy
- Flat earthers
- Anti vaxxers
- Creationists, especially young earth creationists
- Primitivists who oppose modernity
Now, let us see what imagination is:
If you make the brain unnaturally high in this, it can lead to severe prioritisation of new ideas over old ideas. One can ignore data, competing theories and all of it and simply irrationally imagine their way through life.
a scientist tells you x is x and y is y and you decide x is b instead.
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Limited money, time, scientists and more make it a wasted endeavour
We have limited resources on Earth. Starvation, diseases that kill, cancers some of which are still untreatable, medical treatments which do exist but cost far too much, inefficiencies in machines and what do we spent billions on?
A new drug, electrotherapy or whatever else to artificially firce brains that are not so imaginative to sacrifice other areas of the brain and prooritise making new ideas and ignoring if they are real or true.
Somehow I think this would be even more of a waste than the likes of NASA showing off how much money that the US govt coukd soend feeding the starving in US and giving them homes is instead spent on letting us know people can turn upside down and save at a camera smiling in mid space how cool.
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Fair point, however we are talking about the medicine that is not harmful generally if you don't overuse them.
The difference is that a medicine is used to treat or prevent a disease. How could you develop a medicine to boost imagination. Unless it is a medicine to treat mental disabilities. For your topic it would be called 'drugs'. Something you take for a psychological effect not necessarily treating a disease or harming you. And we have plenty. They happen to be harmful, but so are medicaments if you take them without need.
The difference between medicine and drugs are that drugs hurt people while medicine help people. Here it is medicine, that doesn't hurt people like drugs do.
Great example
We have drugs.