Can a person imagine doing something while doing the thing imagined? For example, can I imagine touching a key on my keyboard while touching it?
I think you can. You clearly could dream you were walking naked through your local supermarket while you are walking naked through your local supermarket, and I think the same could be said for imagining, though you would have to be an exceptionally absent-minded philosopher for this actually to happen. To take a less extreme example, you might imagine that you were traveling through Luxembourg at a time when, although you didn't realise it (because it was dark and Luxembourg is such a small country that it is easy to miss), you actually were driving through Luxembourg.
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