Post on 05-May-2018
CREATIVITY
NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision.
by Don L. F. Nilsen
and Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Creative Christmas Dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=niegc7QcilM
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Two Views of Creativity
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Creative Advertising
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Four undocumented Mexican students from Carl Hayden Community High School
used creativity to defeat major research universities to receive 1st place in a robotics competition.
Their robot had to successfully perform five different tasks.
The competition was in a swimming pool at the University of California at Long Beach.
The students at M.I.T. received 2nd place in this same competition.
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Carrot Clarinet:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4
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Creative Honda Ad:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Dxy4n0UT82o?rel=0
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TYPE I: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY
AH!
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DESCRIPTIONS
Abstract Expressionism
Cubism
Dada
Expressionism
Impressionism (Puntalism)
Realism
Surrealism
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EXAMPLES
Camille Saint Sans Carnival of the Animals
Ferde Grofs On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite
Edvard Munchs The Scream
Salvador Dalis art
Pablo Picassos art
Gertrude Steins writing
Jackson Pollocks art
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TYPE II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
AH HA!
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DESCRIPTIONS
Bisociative Click
Epiphany
Eureka Cry
Das aha erlebnis
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EXAMPLES 1
Discovering the Relationships Between:
Tides
The Moon
Lodestones
North Pole
Amber
Magnets
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EXAMPLES 2
And Inventing:
Electricity,
Electromagnetic Engines
Etc.
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TYPE III: COMIC INSPIRATION
HA HA!
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DESCRIPTIONS
Incongruous
Incompatible
Ironic
Ludicrous
Paradoxical
Ridiculous
Satiric
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EXAMPLES
Anachronisms in Science Fiction
Othello with the hiccups
Chess player who gives his opponent a double martini
Fultons Folly (Steamboat)
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SOME FINAL THOUGHTS
CONTRAST: Convergent thinking with Divergent thinking.
FINAL QUOTE: When everyone is thinking the same, then noone is thinking.
Childs Play: An example of divergent thinking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvw469GJ4y0
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References:
Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York, NY: Dell, 1946.
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