Everything we do is only a recombination
or reuse of already existing tools,
techniques or substances. Even creative
insights only rely on already existing
thoughts and ideas.
What was special about Einstein and Newton
was perhaps that they were visionary: they
were able to recombine and
To prevent that the creativity discussion drowns in the archives
of the FRIAM mailing list, I have added a page about creativity
with the article from Orlando, some thoughts of Günther and
the definition from Larry to the Wiki:
http://sfcomplex.org/wiki/Creativity
-J.
Jochen -
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think we are all barking up the same
tree. What I wrote is an essay about creativity of the projected mind. My
more original contribution, forthcoming, is about the use of Google (or
other similar engines) to extend creativity beyond traditional
I find it interesting that he seems to establish the applicability of his
formalism to physical systems with the casual word realize as in Any two
natural systems that realize this formalism . as if no demonstration was
required.There seems to be no instrumentality for such a transference,
the
Orlando,
But aren't you and Jochen talking about insight here as if it were just some
diffusion process of echoes of other things, rather than a synthetic event,
and so leaving the core question of what the heck is making the echoes
around here unaddressed? Ann's comment that even simple things
Phil,
Everybody needs to remember that this is my synopsis of Rosen, not Rosen.
Also, I am starting my synopsis on Chapter Five. I have read the previous
chapters with great care and understand things abut them, but the synopsis of
chapter five will never settle down until somebody has
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:20:22PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Phil,
Everybody needs to remember that this is my synopsis of Rosen, not Rosen.
Also, I am starting my synopsis on Chapter Five. I have read the previous
chapters with great care and understand things abut them, but the
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Nick,
Difficult books are like difficult men: challenging for a while, but
ultimately too much trouble and too little payoff for the effort. Give
me effortless elegance every time. Remind me, why are you doing Rosen?
And while I'm at it, I haven't had time to read all
