The July 28 2008 issue of the New Yorker contains an article titled The
Eureka Hunt: Why Do Good Ideas Come To Us When They Do. See
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_lehrer for
an abstract.
Although the article talks about human insight I think it touches on
human creativity. I am interested in anyone's description (definition)
of creativity and a comparison of creativity in art and science. I would
also appreciate any thoughts about the creative differences and/or
similarities that may exist in different cultures.
My own feeling is that creativity, for example, in visual art and in
theoretical physics contains the same attributes. Einstein was as much
an artist as a physicist. I realize theoretical physics must deal with
the "real world" but the process of original discovery seems the same to me.
O
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Orlando Leibovitz
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