Reflection: The Creative Brain How Insight Works

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1gn21d_bbc-documentary-horizon-the-creative-brain-how-insight-works_lifestyle


While I'm intrigued and appreciative about the way science explains insight and creative thought, but the thing is, audiences need to recognise that science does not deny its limitation, and we need to be mindful that phenomena can't all be accounted for.

It's the classic case of whether the whole is the sum of parts. And my instinctive reaction is that it isn't. Whole is not the sum of part. Neither more than nor less than. it just isn't.

I went to attend a talk this saturday and the speaker said something along the lines that, well, everybody has different creative process, and our job is to understand and find the ones that work for us.

The very need to define creativity before scientists can go about investigating, to me is like this:
creativity is like water - we need to contain the water in a vessel before we can drink it or bring it around and use it. if the water is in the middle of the stream, ocean, or in the air as humidity, we can't really understand it. But well, ultimately, water in the vessel is not the true nature of the water, is it.
it's one way the water can behave but it isn't quite a true representation of the truth.