Subject: Re: Mystical or Methodical? Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 05:09:59 GMT From: "Brandon J. Van Every" Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Newsgroups: comp.games.development.design "Sean Howard" wrote in message news:a2iodl$17p$1@news.fsu.edu... > > Creativity is mystical. It cannot be explained because it isn't any one > thing, or any one process. You can foster creativity, you can learn it, > you can even teach it, but you will never be able to explain it, and to > me, that is mystical. I can explain it quite simply. Creativity is random symbolic elements bumping around in your brain at a zillion comparisons a second until the brain matches some patterns. Truly creative behavior doesn't limit itself to "preferred" or "stable" patterns. Thus, the results of creative endeavors may or may not be appreciated by others. Frequently, the raw creative material is packaged into more analytic and socially digestible forms, because few human beings have an appreciation for random noise. There's nothing mystical about it. In 100..150 years' time robots will be doing it. -- Cheers, www.3DProgrammer.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA 20% of the world is real. 80% is gobbledygook we make up inside our own heads.