Collingwood built his artistic philosophy on the thinking ability of "consciousness". "Consciousness" is the starting point of all artistic conception , which is inexhaustible to the poetic concept of "poetry is mainly based on meaning".
Collingwood pointed out that the twin attributes of sensory factors and emotional factors cannot conceal their structurally logical sequence. In a specific experience, emotions are caused by the corresponding senses, the former is the "emotional load" of the latter.
Collingwood: We are thinking about our various feelings. Once we have certain feelings, we will gradually realize these feelings through attention activities.
We cannot decide what we can feel, but we can decide whether to put some feelings in the focus of our consciousness.
Our feelings are triggered by external stimuli and weakened over time. It is a flow of unchanging activities. However, once a feeling is "aware", it has the possibility of long-term transformation, and this long-term transformation is the prerequisite for us to have the ability to recall.
Collingwood believes that we "imagine" pure sensory experience by guiding "consciousness", so that the originally fluid feeling is preserved for a long time.
Collingwood: Imagination is a different level of experience between feeling and reason, and is the contact point in which the world of thinking and the world of pure psychological experience are interconnected.
Collingwood: Consciousness activities transform impressions into concepts, that is, turn unprocessed feelings into imagination.
Feeling changes with the changes in the external environment, and our experience is actually composed of a series of continuous sensations. If those feelings that appear first cannot be transformed into "imagination", they will be fleeting and cannot be linked to the feelings of staying behind to form a complete experience.
