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5 Minute Post, challenge, creativity, musings, Philosophy, writing
I have 5 minutes, one topic, and a blog: GO!
Writing as Creation
Clearly writing can be creative, I mean, its pactically creating something from nothing! You have all the elements mentioned in my post on the Philosophy of Creativity: The Urge to Create something, the resistance to it, the influences from the world around… plus the all important thing to write with. But what are you creating? Are the words themselves the creation? Is it the actual physical thing you write on? The digital blog-page? Is that what is created?
Lets take a song: say you write a song with a narrative.
What have you made? A song, a story, a piece of paper/digital page with words on it, marks, a shape picked out by the lines of words…
But if you then sing it, is that singing the same thing? Did you make that sung song too, in the first act of writing? If you copy it and someone else sings it, what then? If you email it to all your friends, are all those copies part of that first creation?
And the story… the narrative, you made that too.
Creation is amazing. One act can result in soemthing so huge.
Or it can result in a rambling muse on a blog floating in cyberspace.
And thats 5 minutes gone. Time to go out. Thoughts anyone? Anyone like to see more of these?
If you guys suggest topics, I’ll pick them randomly according to mood and give it a go, see what comes out. 🙂
Halo Quin 
I think that it is possible for humans to have evolved creativity as an evolutionary adaptation, possibly to help increase technology & thus survival? Or.. a sexual adaptation used to attract members of the opposite sex. If you think, really, what is the real physical purpose of being able to write a beautiful symphony? It would never have contributed to your survival pre-society. It’s kind of hard to explain lol.
I read something like this somewhere but I can’t quite remember haha.
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Thanks for the comments!
I’ve come across the idea that creativity is something we evolved to help with survival in a few places… if you think about it, creativity is more than just making pretties, its also the ability to imagine, to inovate, to problem solve and so on, so the ability to create would have been useful pre-society as it would give an edge in the ability to make or invent tools, find solutions, keep sane in the long dark nights of the winter by telling stories… oh wait, there is the start of society. 🙂
But yes, any creative being without claws would have an advantage over a clawless, non-creative being simply by being able to imagine how a sharp rock could act like a claw for defence or hunting, or a long stick could extend the reach of the sharp rock… and so on. Its quite likely that we evolved this way… but now we have the urge to, now creativity has a social role as well, and we still feel the need to do it, because of evolution, so the interesting bit is in the ways in which we are creative, the roles it has in societies, and what it means to us as individuals.
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Well, maybe not so ideal – but big change to the world of internet.
I just discovered your blog while searching for some songs and video documentary. The layout is quite wonderful and I must appreciate the effort you do in posting useful stuff here, thank you mate.
Thank you Jeffry!
HI Jefferey, I’m not sure I follow your comment, would you care to elucidate please?