Italo Calvino- Visibility

Italo Calvino points out the idea that imagination has two modes of thought. One, is that imagination is an instrument of knowledge, while the other argues that imagination is the identification with the world soul. Calvino sides with imagination as the identification as the world soul.
 He does so because imagination is a way if gaining knowledge outside the individual. He mentions the Neo-platonics originating the idea of imagination as a communication with the would soul romanticism and surrealism I agree with Calvinos stance on imagination being the identification of the world soul because unlike reading and writing, it isn’t learned. Image is charged with meaning, which is universal. He furthers his point by stating that even while reading a scientific technical text, the reader still will unexpectedly create an imagine in their head based off of imagination.
Furthermore, because everyone has a different imagination or vision, it unify the world because it helps us see things from a different perspective. We all have future images, which connects the world in a more empathetic way.
 I find this to be a unifying concept because every person in the world does this without any control. It is natural that this occurs no matter what the text, language, or person. In result, imagination ties the world together in a universal and natural language. It is not an instrument of knowledge, yet a tool for the universal soul.