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So your view is essentially the same as Brett’s, that it goes no further than a problem-solution relationship. Inventiveness. In this case, creativity...

+1 It’s deceptive, like ‘love,’ that is all fashionable to call just another word, but always seems lacking in definition as such.

however, is more valuable - not because it has a higher use-value, but because the creative process is more demanding and time-consuming There must be...

Using evolution theory to describe things like creativity poses a deficiency problem for me. That is by what do we measure it? To say something exists...

I mean you said you gain satisfaction from doing ‘good creative work.’ Apologies if this is in any manner offensive as thats not my intention at all. ...

would you then say that the work is successful in it’s own right but doesn’t seek to have meaning in the sense that the delivery of your creativity an...

I think what you may be getting at is the meaning of the creativity. Being distinguished from it’s self contained rules for its existence.

This is interesting, so someone who arranges a photograph with an AI program and another with their eye. Though to the viewer there is no conscious di...

So you do work, labour, for a client. Besides profit, what are the characteristics of the the social exchange? Do you receive different levels of indi...

Apologies if this leaves out many people's experience who were involved in the pre-2000 creative environment, but this was supposed to refer to the 'Y...

I'd like to correct myself there, that technically I don't think that what I said was totally right, where I said "but not involved in the definition ...

I'd argue that it being new and different is a property of originality rather than creativity. The quality of the work being not like other works is u...

No, I'd never say anything like that. I'm the guy rather diametrically opposed to any judgmental normatives like that. If the goal is to create a cata...

The definition makes sense to me. So what we're really doing is taking some materials or ideas outside of their natural state and arranging them to se...

I fully agree. Though to be clear one’s object doesn’t really have use-value to them-self.

Thanks Brett. So your point is that the painting of a picture is not distinguishable from a chimp using a stick to catch birds. The decision of said c...

Supposing there were an deity, and they had power over everything, and human existence had no such quality as Free Will, there would be no transgressi...

Loved Islam, that may be an overstatement?

The Real is what happens against the Reality, while the Reality happens all the time. Here (and this is not a Christian apologia) The Real, Reality, a...

Hi ritikew, no question my post contains some bias. I don't pretend to escape it, but I do endeavour to. You bring up the use of technology in process...

Well there's the pure act of creativity itself and then there's sub-category of creative industry. Being involved in industry presupposes there's a re...

Let's escape the 'money' connotation of value and settle that it can be any value, even not having value can be considered a value. Lets flip it upsid...

In response I’d ask if you yourself would produce said video, of $5000 cost for equipment, actors, along with approximately 40 hours (one week) of tim...

I’m glad you brought up the creative impulse or instinct. In my world these are two separate entities. The second is more difficult to account for, be...

Thanks I fully agree with your thoughts on this. By speaking of ‘we’ ‘our’ I presume you have the belief that creativity is a social act. Nobody shoul...

Thanks for your response. The analogy to Natural Selection is valid, but then what’s the reason for those individuals to strive for? Is it that creati...

Personally, I think that post-modernism is more of a symptom than a real cause of the rise of extreme leftism. We can't really say 'post-modernism cau...

Could you cite an example or two of "competition based on making others' life better"? Taking the definition of 'compete' from the online dictionary, ...

Everything's true nature is to end, and those things that are self aware become self-aware of their nature to end, and consequently seek to speed up t...

Thanks, I found myself wrestling this problem in part to escape the recent notion of the pure biology of existence. This model seems greatly flawed fr...

Dawkins sounds like a smart scientist, but the question of how to frame interpersonal religion and justify it is best left to the philosophers and the...

It seems pertinent to reiterate the distinction here between ‘non belief’ in G-d and the claim that ‘G-d does not exist.’ The second being an type of ...

Whether one chooses to be or not as a product of their will/upbringing is not relevant. My criticisms are not of the individual but of the discourse. ...

We occupy a particular place, where many who previously have a long history of following certain religions are no longer doing it. We aren't in an eas...

I don’t see how we can make a clear discernment between something like ‘ghosts’ and G-d by saying “I don’t believe it can be because this is unreasona...

It doesnt follow to me that this is a valid conclusion based on incommunicability or lack of rational proof. That faith only holds up for a multitude ...

Well I’m glad we all agree that guy was just insane. The question still remains though, is it possible to be a-religuous and not be in contradiction i...

certainly AFAIK (not brought up Christian) Christianity includes the concept of Sin that we have Original Sin and struggle for redemption against our ...

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Well he claimed that the Qu’ran particularly is a call to violence, misogynistic, and that Islam itself is particularly dangerous. The Bill Maher type...

In a nutshell their claim was that now because of global terrorism, violence/oppression of women, and so on religions thenselves are causing harm and ...

If something is not reasonable we could equate that to saying it is unlikely, as our reason’s function to prediction of events means this at most. To ...

Two people observe similar lives, one believes in a G-d the other does not. One’s claim clearly has a better ‘chance’ of being right by existing ratio...

What about the discipline of chemistry. The first atomists had no clear reason to believe for sure on their specultions based on observation, but late...

Nihil I suppose what you're referring to is the ‘Death Drive’ as mentioned by Freud in ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle.’ Here it seems to me to diverge...

Its unfortunate, but theism gains the greatest insights in fields such as philosophy and mathematics for good reason. Subscribing purely to materialis...

If you believe you can posess the truth, there is no point in examining the subject. More relevant is the question: does one ever know the truth, or i...

"Reasoning concerning causal interactions, however, can lead to an understanding of the physical world as a realm of causal interactions with which we...

Two different definitions, one a collective affirmation of existence, and the other seemingly reliant on appearance, though nobody can totally refute ...

How are we defining existence? In my definition, an object only has existence if an implementation of life can interact with it. No life, no existence...