Ancient Magic Of Imagination And Modern Digital Technologies

Abstract

The magic of imagination, which flourished in the ancient cultures of India, China, Greece, in the era of computer technology has received powerful new means for its expression in images. Human's magical striving for infinite, that is, divine power, was originally based on faith in the omnipotence of the creative imagination, capable of creating spiritual and material existence. This belief could only be realized through the mathematization and digitalization of imagination and, accordingly, language as the main means of image creation. Modern computer technologies, relying on artificial mathematical languages, make it possible to create interacting and interpenetrating virtual worlds that seek to push back and, in fact, replace the actual material and spiritual world given to humanity. These digital processes in the development of modern culture are accompanied by a new wave of research attention to the ancient magical perception of the world, to the nature of creative imagination in its magical comprehension and mythological implementation by the methods of art and science, which in this case returns to its ancient magical paradigm. At present, researchers are busy both with the current manifestations of the magic of the imagination, and with various epochal features in its historical formation. Attention to the magic of imagination is intensified against the background of the general enthusiasm of researchers of literary texts with ancient pagan mythology, on the one hand, and the possibilities of modern digital myth-making, on the other.