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Imaginary Mental Objects
=====Imaginary Mental Objects=====
Some times we have gaps between observe phenomena that could not be explain by our mental objectsexisting MOs. These gaps This gap usually [[RPE|puzzle us]] and we look for an explanation or some intermediate MO that will close explain the gapphenoema. Therefore we invent an unseen MO to bridge the gap. When we invent the bridging MO, we usually imagine it and we do not get if from phenomenological intervals (when we will further research, we will see that all MOs are imaginary mental objects), therefore we will call it Imaginary Mental Object or [[iMO]], while the objects obtained from phenomenological intervals will call Sensory Mental Objects([[sMO]]).
For instance, when the ancients looked upward and saw the sun travels through the skies, they where puzzled. They knew that every object which is traveling need something to pull or to thrust it, yet the sun seems to move without a mover. To solve it, they invented a "story" or a mental object that was missing. They told their hearers that the sun is pulled by invisible horses. The invisible horses where their iMO that bridged the gap.