Some wonder how creativity is possible. "How can you come up with something new, something that has never been thought of before?"
The way it seems to work is by conceptual blending, taking one or more things and putting them together, taking some elements of each input "conceptual space" (itself a metaphor) or the relationship between them to be or to project onto elements of the blended space.
"So," the questioners may say, "creativity is just putting things together, all the creations are just putting together things that already exist. Creations are really just implicit in the input."
Here the key word is "just," which does not convey information about creativity, but an attitude. Perhaps it comes from the idea that God created the Universe out of nothing, and creation out of something doesn't really count. The scripture, however, specifies when the gods created the heavens and the earth the earth was without form and void. This could imply that creation is shaping, not making something without any material to work with.
posted by TC @ 4:18 PM
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