>It's OK, you simply lack imagination. "Imagine" is a word that has more than one sense. I can "imagine" a possibility whether or not I think its probability i

>It's OK, you simply lack imagination. "Imagine" is a word that has more than one sense. I can "imagine" a possibility whether or not I think its probability is > 0%. Saying "I can't imagine" can be a way of saying yeah, I think the probability is 0%. But if I can state the probability, I must have some kind of model in my head, so in that sense I am "imagining" it. "Imagine" that strategic bombing was invented, and then everybody just waited around without doing it until there was a bomb that could destroy an entire city - i.e. Trinity. In one sense, sure, I/you/we can imagine it. But it seems to me that sort of thing would be unprecedented in all of human history, so in another sense it seems impossible - unimaginable - although in a softer way than a violation of physics or logic. The last bit of my previous comment was about logical impossibility, by the way.