<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 20:38, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Marco Donnarumma wrote:<br>
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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:<br>
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« 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. »<br>
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Oh, so THAT's what creativity means !<br>
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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 ?<br>
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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.<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>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...<br>
<br>Andras<br>