From: Chris Trask (christrask@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 02:39:24 GMT
I'm new to this list, so I should appologize in case the question I'm
about to ask has come up recently.
I'm in the midst of reading ZAMM, and I recently read the passage in
which Poincaré's "subliminal self" was discussed, my curiosity of which is
how I found this list. I have been very interested in the nature of
creativity, and until reading this the only literature that I have found on
the subject worth reading has been "Creativity and Taoism" by Chang
Chung-yuan. I am now going to add "The Foundations of Science" to that
meager portion of the shelf.
Interestingly, Poincaré's conclusions closely resemble the Taoist idea
of "interfusion", where numerous ideas or pieces of knowledge come together
in a conscious/unconscious "moment of inspiration" (Taoist) or "point of
departure" (Poincaré). From these two diverse writings, neither of which
draws upon the other, it would seem that the philosophical concept of the
nature of creativity is somewhat universal.
But it's difficult to fully support that conclusion on these two
writings alone. There must be more literature on the subject than just
these two volumes, and I would like to ask if anyone on this list could
suggest some further literature on the subject of the nature of creativity.
Chris
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