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Fire existed as a process in the environment before humans had the skill to ‘create’ it. A human learns from interacting with fire, developing awarene...
June 27, 2019 at 06:20
My theory is that its origins run much deeper than instinct. Human creativity comes from a gradually developed capacity for awareness, enabling us to ...
June 27, 2019 at 03:18
Once, when we were very young children, everything was a great event: radical and life changing. Today most events appear as only modifications on pre...
June 25, 2019 at 09:44
Everything else is a negotiation; an intricate and ever-changing set of relationships through which we convert that potential of our minds into ‘reali...
June 24, 2019 at 23:30
Yes, there is a certain level of self-confidence in being able to see potential where others see a dead end, and then to develop the skills to make th...
June 24, 2019 at 11:48
I can relate to this. In some of my creative pursuits I have less of an intuitive grasp of the materials and how they interact than others, so it help...
June 24, 2019 at 08:44
But there can be creativity without the result. This is the point I’m trying to make. The fact that you have to write ‘creative act’, ‘creating someth...
June 24, 2019 at 05:42
Creativity must necessarily be constrained eventually by interaction with the world, otherwise it is only potential. In that way I agree to some exten...
June 24, 2019 at 03:34
As I have said, we are most creative when things like survival, productivity and physical existence are not threatened - so, in a way, creativity that...
June 24, 2019 at 02:29
I should have said not valued just for the actual product. The artist or physicist derives personal pleasure from the process, but what pleasure is th...
June 24, 2019 at 02:02
That depends on where one believes ‘personal’ ends and ‘universal’ begins. The atomic bombs on Japan are an example of creative capacity unleashed to ...
June 24, 2019 at 01:43
I apologise - that was presumptuous of me. I was trying to present how I see the arts as valuable, reassuring in their lack of use-value. I actually t...
June 24, 2019 at 01:28
You’re right - creativity is not measured in effort or time (despite the structure of industries such as graphic design). It’s the intangible creative...
June 24, 2019 at 01:11
Personally, I don’t see creativity as restricted to the arts at all. It’s a large part of theoretical physics, for instance - but they don’t call it c...
June 24, 2019 at 00:09
Also someone who adjusts the settings on a camera and waits for just the right combination of subject matter and lighting before taking a photograph t...
June 23, 2019 at 23:23
That’s not my view, but I do see survival and productivity as externally influencing and constraining an inherent creativity that underlies what you s...
June 23, 2019 at 23:03
No, it doesn’t. But being creative does necessarily involve creating new and different ways of interacting with the world. This can mean rearranging e...
June 23, 2019 at 16:05
The objectives are different, but the creative process is essentially the same. As I said before, creativity is always constrained in some way, whethe...
June 23, 2019 at 07:38
No. What I’m saying is that an act or product that demonstrates a different perspective of the universe is creative because it forms part of the creat...
June 23, 2019 at 01:23
I get where you’re coming from, and I disagree - although I do concede that creative activity is not totally selfless, and neither can it be said to h...
June 22, 2019 at 04:18
Thank you for explaining this and for the quotes. I think I see it more clearly now. The distinction between authentic and inauthentic is much finer t...
June 22, 2019 at 01:26
For me, creativity is not about use-value, but about sharing our subjective view of the universe in a form that pursues at least one of three aims: in...
June 21, 2019 at 13:13
This is where we tend to get confused about the role of language. The suggestion in the OP is that discourse “is intended to render explicit our under...
June 21, 2019 at 11:08
I’d have to agree with @"Fooloso4", though - I don’t see this as necessarily discourse. It is entirely possible to succeed in baking the potato withou...
June 20, 2019 at 11:02
I understand your reluctance to dismiss possibilities - I’ve been there. But all of science points to process as the underlying reality of our univers...
June 19, 2019 at 10:13
So do you genuinely believe that the first method is realistically achievable?
June 18, 2019 at 09:34
I currently still work a day job, have a family, raise children. My epiphany arrived in the midst of these obligations, and I’m working my way around ...
June 17, 2019 at 10:40
Fair enough - I may have to read up some more. I get that ‘for the sake of which’ can apply to discourse, but I can’t see how it applies in this case,...
June 17, 2019 at 07:14
I only have a general understanding of Heidegger, so bear with me. I would have interpreted the action of turning the oven to 425 degrees as a transpa...
June 17, 2019 at 05:06
This only proves that the first approach appears more attractive - that we expend so much energy and effort towards the first approach, but it’s a lar...
June 16, 2019 at 23:07
The first approach assumes a controlled environment: that you CAN eliminate anything that might hurt you, and that the environment will remain free of...
June 16, 2019 at 10:26
Why is that? Is it because you are then aware of where you can and cannot go as you set off? When you’re blindfolded, you can initially feel free - pe...
June 15, 2019 at 10:24
...and atoms are made up, ultimately, of relationships between interacting energy...and so into the quantum realm, where interaction collapses potenti...
June 15, 2019 at 02:39
Every time I’ve tried to define what freedom means, it seems like I must affix the definition to a series of points in spacetime - the universe (and m...
June 14, 2019 at 10:32
I suspect this is going to continue to be one-sided, so I’m going to hang onto the rest of my theory for now, if you don’t mind. But feel free to pres...
June 13, 2019 at 00:38
Could you explain this? I’m not talking about disembodied cognition, so I’m not sure where you drew this conclusion. How do you see it, then?
June 11, 2019 at 06:43
There’s an interesting book called ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ by Peter Wohlleben that offers a different perspective on the capacity of plants and fun...
June 11, 2019 at 03:33
This has been an interesting discussion - one of the most interesting things has been the recognition that categories such as living/non-living are no...
June 11, 2019 at 01:25
I noticed this, too. As I said, it’s a work in progress. And I think relying on Descartes does the theory more harm than good. My earlier quote from R...
June 10, 2019 at 10:41
I’m not sure I follow what you’re asking here. This reads like a cut and paste from Google translate.
June 09, 2019 at 23:44
It always seems to me that people misunderstand what Nietzsche meant by ‘will to power’. This term was a reaction against the pessimism and nihilism o...
June 09, 2019 at 09:26
I agree with this so far. At this point I’ll go back to my earlier reference to the way that matter integrates information. My thoughts/beliefs on thi...
June 09, 2019 at 08:45
First I have to clarify that I’m talking about anthropocentrism, rather than anthropomorphism, because I think the distinction is important before we ...
June 08, 2019 at 01:02
Granted, this is not technically ‘trial and error’ - it’s the description given in science journals, mind you. Given the initial concentration reading...
June 07, 2019 at 16:01
Ok, I think I’m following you now. Your criticisms are fair, and I do appreciate you pointing out and challenging my language use. Blame an Arts degre...
June 07, 2019 at 13:50
You seem adamant that amoeba and bacteria cannot relate chemical stimulus to direction, and yet the process of chemotaxis disputes this. I’m talking a...
June 06, 2019 at 05:52
Cosmic sorcerer and magic aside (you look like you’re having fun here), what if there were more lawful activity and less randomness than we currently ...
June 06, 2019 at 00:28
The way I see it, it comes down to awareness of potential. As humans we are constructed a certain way: not for individual survival, but for maximising...
June 06, 2019 at 00:01
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I agree. I’ve chosen to ignore the side argument - feel free to continue with the main discussion, if you can find it back there...
June 05, 2019 at 15:06
I understand what you’re saying here, and I do agree - however if we’re trying to get to an understanding of what consciousness is and how it emerges ...
June 05, 2019 at 14:58