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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yes, go on. Imagination isn't a skill, something you have, it's something that you lack. So if you already know everything, there's nothing to..."
Another student says imagination is not a positive possession but a function of lack, because if one already knows everything there is nothing left to imagine.
"Yes, go on. Imagination isn't a skill, something you have, it's something that you lack. So if you already know everything, there's nothing to..."
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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