Creativity - Working Defn

Creativity:   " to question our patterned assignment of boundaries and values"?*

*"Bringing these autonomous? patterns of distinction/thought into concious awareness (listening) (expressing them in language?) and rationally questioning them,  discussing them  (social aspect) and experimentally trying alternatives "


ie Absolute boundaries  and  polarised rhetoric in the context of the flat plane of post structuralist thought?(Hicks) and performative values (Eshelman) (also pragmatism)


(this relates to Deleuze's defn of philosophy as the "creation of concepts" )


eg searching for emergent univocity (cooperative/mutual aspect) as a possibility via appreciating random expressive flow...

Aim: to explore the possibility of realising an increase in experienced mutual (Sustainable) value / quality of life / (happiness)


Explore possible benefits of mutual causality   (Buddhist) (Macy)


holistic aspect

It is not a self-existent entity, but a fluid and changing pattern, a process interlinked and co-arising with the entire universe. (p. 216)

eg  intonation… speaking as transmitting info, c.f speaking as vibrational exercise in unfolding sound
Vocal - could be in poetic context / improv re poeisis game

In a hierarchical view of reality, and in the linear, one way view of causality to which it leads, both value and power are attributed to absolute entity or essence, unaffected by the play of phenomena...habits of thought bred by this one-way view persist in the assumption that power works from the top down. This notion is particularly dangerous in a time of increasing planetary disruptions and scarcities. It tempts people to assume that freedom is inimical to collective survival, and that order must be imposed from above. Indeed the political fanaticisms and religious fundamentalisms of our time give voice to the belief that common will and coordinated action require subservience to a particular leader or deity...both Systems Theory and Buddhism make clear, order is not imposed from above, by mind exerting its will on dumb material forces; it is intrinsic to the self- organizing nature of the phenomenal world itself. When we recognize our participation in its co-arising patterns, we can claim our power to act. We can then, through our choices give expression and efficacy to the coordination at play in all life forms. (p. xiii)

dependent co- arising means that everything arises through mutual conditioning in reciprocal interaction.  not as substance or essence but orderly process itself—the way things work. (p. xi)

here we have a rational aspect and an affective aspect  needs to be shared value between these