This is something I've been thinking about recently, although more in the context of why imagination appears to be more vivid in youth. I thought that it may b

This is something I've been thinking about recently, although more in the context of why imagination appears to be more vivid in youth. I thought that it may be a cognitive side effect of learning. The more we learn, or more generally speaking, the more information we receive, the more we might reject creative thought as incoherent with, or irrelevant to our environment.