What is Creativity?

[stormbind]

I don't know who first defined Creative and it would be great to know!

It is claimed that Aristotle described Creative Mind as one that transforms potential things into actual things.

Aristotle seems most concerned with what Mind is, but are Mind and Creative two mutually exclusive concepts?

Nature has no mind. Are natural forces Creative when they produce unique and original forms such as those in a snowflake?

Such naturally occuring stuctures might be dismissed by thinkers because they offer no improvement over similar structures, but this strikes me as a non-issue. If things do not have permanent value, then no thing is an improvement, and the universe has dictated that no thing will be permanent.

What the smeg am I talking about?

 

[Brighteye]

+2 culture in every city per turn?

 

[stormbind]

Does the civilisation earn the label "creative" when you achieve +2 culture in every city in every turn, or do you build a "creative wonder" to earn +2 culture in every city in every turn?

 

[bathsheba666]

If you don't know, why not make it up?

 

[CC-2224]

It is claimed that Aristotle described Creative Mind as one that transforms potential things into actual things.

Creative Mind, in my opinion, is more about generating new concepts and ideas, but not necessarily implementing them.

Aristotle seems most concerned with what Mind is, but are Mind and Creative two mutually exclusive concepts?

Seeing as I had to look this up in the dictionary, I'm not even going to answer this !

Nature has no mind. Are natural forces Creative when they produce unique and original forms such as those in a snowflake?

I wouldn't define snowflakes as a "creative". Random would be a better word for it.

+2 culture in every city per turn?

 

[stormbind]

Snowflake under a microscope (apparently):


It doesn't look random to me. The regular structure is the result of chemical solutions following a set of rules. It's certainly not divergent thought.

Back to Aristotle, the ancient Greeks, and pretty much everyone else in recorded history: they believe that visual art is not creative because it lacks imagination. It wasn't until the 19th Century that this view was challenged, and its again outmoded with contemporary thinkers being (almost exclusively) concerned with creativity in science and nature.

 

[Ansar]

I assume Creative would be being imaginative, not just being logical.

If you're not creative, you would not be able to make an opinion, just spit out facts.

 

[CC-2224]

It doesn't look random to me. The regular structure is the result of chemical solutions following a set of rules. It's certainly not divergent thought.

Well, if it follows a specific formula, then aren't the variables still random?

 

[Bast]

The ability to create something abstract or concrete.

 

[Bast]

I don't know who first defined Creative and it would be great to know!

It is claimed that Aristotle described Creative Mind as one that transforms potential things into actual things.

Aristotle seems most concerned with what Mind is, but are Mind and Creative two mutually exclusive concepts?

Nature has no mind. Are natural forces Creative when they produce unique and original forms such as those in a snowflake?

Such naturally occuring stuctures might be dismissed by thinkers because they offer no improvement over similar structures, but this strikes me as a non-issue. If things do not have permanent value, then no thing is an improvement, and the universe has dictated that no thing will be permanent.

What the smeg am I talking about?

Well no thing is permanent. But you raise a good point in that naturally occurring things could be a product of creativity.

 

[Elta]

I am gonna re read the op / for right now my honest response is HUH?

 

[stormbind]

Well, if it follows a specific formula, then aren't the variables still random?

I think we can agree the values are unknown

If you're not creative, you would not be able to make an opinion, just spit out facts.

Is this view of creativity linked to moral judgement?

 

[El_Machinae]

Creativity is linking concepts from another media onto a new media, it is converting analogies and metaphors to a new application.

 

[Gainy]

I think there's a bit of overanalysis

Creativity in my mind is being able to create innovatively

 

[stormbind]

What is overanalysis?

 

[Gainy]

might want to start a new thread for that one, and/or become a philosopher

 

[warpus]

Creativity is to Mind what Foreplay is to Orgasm.

 

[Mirc]

I think they aren't exclusive. Of course, I've never made a really long mental analysis about this, unlike about other philosophic topics.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Creativity is the knack of seeing the world in non traditional ways and being able to capture those visions in ways that are accessible to others.

 

[sourboy]

Creative Mind, in my opinion, is more about generating new concepts and ideas, but not necessarily implementing them.

I wouldn't define snowflakes as a "creative". Random would be a better word for it.

I agree with these 2 assessments.