On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 20:38, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Marco Donnarumma wrote:

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:

« 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. »

Oh, so THAT's what creativity means !

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 ?

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.