Brett

This is an ambiguous sentence, but I’ll address it anyway. In my experience ‘professionals’ (whoever they are) show or display less anger than I see i...

Oh oh.

That’s why I brought up the dishes. Where do these decisions a woman makes based on DNA begin and end, or are you saying every decision a woman makes ...

You were talking about women. I stayed on your subject. You said women’s daily decisions are based on their DNA. Thats a big assumption.

What, like doing the dishes?

I don’t know.

What does that mean?

My impression is that she meant that our morality is not subjective, that it is not relative to different cultures or ideas, that it is common to all ...

Not just you, I would think.

Do you mean me? Then try it this way: Give me the problem, then give me the objective, then give me the strategy for reaching the objective. Just sayi...

I think you just continued to point out the problem. I might have missed it but I didn’t see a ‘how’.

I always considered “The Fountainhead” to be a criticism of the users, the con men and bureaucrats that soak up taxpayers hard earned money. The way g...

I’m not sure what we’re disagreeing about, in fact I’m not sure if we are disagreeing. The word ‘fiddling may have become a bit too literal. By ‘fiddl...

The act, participating, creating, being creative right now is the description from inside.

In its origins the creative act, the process, wasn’t a conscious act. (Is it today? I’m not sure). It had no intention, it was the behaviour of an ani...

This is what happens after the creative act. The creative act of starting a fire is followed by the use of it, being able to ‘recognise one’s own capa...

What interested me about Mary Midgley was her ideas on morality; that we were moral creatures, even though we did not always act morally, and that we ...

It’s hard for me to make clear, and I maybe missing something myself, that without a creative act that contributes towards survival there will be no s...

The result is purely chance. Early man was not seeking a specific result. You cannot say I’m going to invent a specific thing, because you must alread...

Though your fire story could be regarded as a creative act, or thought, that has a beneficial result. I really don’t know how to classify that. Of cou...

I’ve read ‘Beast and Man’, ‘Wickedness’ and ‘Heart and Mind’. The last seems to require more concentration than ‘Beast and Man’, but that could be me....

This is the Macmillan meaning of ‘create’: to make something new or original that did not exist before. Would you agree?

This is not the same is creating fire with a flint or rubbing a sharp stick against wood to create heat and then a flame.

You’re kidding, right? You want me to list people I know and then prove their existence to you?

I’ve found her books extremely refreshing and persuasive.

Probably of interest in terms of the future workforce is whether the rich: Gates, Beto, Zuckerberg, Buffett, Arnault, Slim, etc. hold onto their wealt...

Actually, I’ve found them to argue as heatedly as you do.

Yes, I do sometimes consider that possibility. The birth of a child is not something I think a man and woman sat down and considered and decided that ...

Totally agree. Edit: what I meant was that the creative act is not always artistic.

Not if people-pets were really expensive. If there was a big financial investment in people-pets then it’s in the owners interests to care for it. May...

In answer to your question, an intelligent person should remain open to all possibilities. The irony is that your dislike for this god is so personal,...

Okay, no immigrants. . I do remember serious conversations in the media years ago about what people would do with all their ‘leisure time’, partly as ...

Well, I think everyone will become an artist, we’re on the way to that anyway, art being impossible to define, and the idea that ‘you can be anything ...

I get a bit tangled up with this question. If I change ‘free will’ to ‘kidney’, then the answer is to survive. But history proves that you can survive...

Of course. I understand that. I'm testing my own thoughts here.

I would find it difficult to view these as anything but survival features.

This is the source you mean? Awareness and seeking the source are the same, and its inherent? But why did we, and not other life forms, not have a “fo...

What is this ‘awareness’? You seem to be saying that in the beginning was awareness, then came creativity. Your quote states that “Human creativity co...

I wasn’t saying who cares if the supernatural exists, I said who cares about your subjective view on religion. What it amounts to is nothing more than...

I can’t help thinking that in the past this has led to some pretty tragic situations.

These posts suggest we’re living in a new age that has broken with the past. The creative acts today and the ‘creative animal’ no longer resemble what...

A young child looking at a painting of a women grieving might easily assume the woman could be laughing.

Which is that, as an example, a painting of a weeping women does express grief. That the ‘proposition’ is not necessary?

I have to rewrite this as “Magritte statement makes sense because we understand what it means for a person to express his thoughts.” This is the conte...

This seems to me to be similar to the idea that a painting isn’t complete and have meaning until it has an observer: the painting being Bob and the ob...

Your using religious institutions as a way to disparage the idea of the supernatural. So your position seems to be not just that you wonder if belief ...

That’s not quite what said. This what I said: “The creative act is a human instinct: to fiddle with things, mix them up, try different fits, stuff we ...

An interesting point. I’m going to think about it. Maybe it’s also possible we don’t like contemporary big ideas and ignore them, or purposely reduce ...

What cycle of despair? What unsuccessful people? If you take a job at the beginning of a career your wage is low, as you develop more skills your inco...

I'm impressed by those who actually read these posts enough to give valid responses.