From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 01:54:49 GMT
Chris,
I haven't read it in a long time, but Arthur Koestler's "Act of Creation"
might be of interest (or is it "Acts of Creation", I forget).
- Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@earthlink.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:39 PM
Subject: MD On the Matter of Creativity
> 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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