On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 20:38, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Marco Donnarumma wrote: > > Dear all, it's with great pleasure that I share with you this piece. I had >> an inspiring, in-depth conversation with artist and fellow Pd'er Ben Bogart >> over the last months, and this is the result: >> > > « Rational and creative thought are two extremes of a single process. > Rational associations involve activations of few memories in very focused > directions, while creative associations involve the activation of many > memories in many different directions. » > > Oh, so THAT's what creativity means ! > > Why is it called creative, if one can create new thoughts and new things > from rational thought, especially thoughts and things that so-called > «creative» thought can't come up with ? > > Fortunately, that kind of jargon isn't used in the actual MSc thesis. I > mean, the word creative is not used in the same way, especially as the word > «rational» doesn't appear at all. > > Well, I'm not academic and I'm also rather careful with dualist ideas, however, instead of creative vs rational, which are, least to say, not mutually exclusive, I usually use inductive vs deductive. Maybe that's what you mean too - maybe not... Andras
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