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From: ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk (Oliver Sparrow)
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Subject: Re: Creativity
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How an individual and a team engage in creativity is quite different; and
so do are the processes by which "routine" creativity - yet more copy, yet
another car - are differentiated from creative saltation, in which the
structural nature of the enterprise is re-thought or otherwise re-made.
The romantic view is that creativity is a hermetic activity, evoked when  
individuals marked with a secret sign engage in inner and dark wrestlings   
with inchoate reality. This may catch something of a fleeting minority of 
important events; but the economy and life is driven forward by sweat applied 
to the gears of thought. Emolient inspiration is distilled from the fossil 
sludge of worn experience, dead mistakes and forgotten analogies; and not at 
all from the list - "logic, ethics, epistemology..." - with which you began.
 
Bah. Humbug.

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  Oliver Sparrow
  ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk
