On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
> > you could define creativity as the ability to generate interesting > things. > OK. > I was trying to avoid "interesting" to not get into a circular > definition. > There is no circularity. Although there are several competing definitions of "complexity" they all have one thing in common, they're all objective; but "interesting" is 100% subjective, it is a desire to find out more about something. > "interesting" is more relevant than "difficult" when it comes to > creativity. > There is a connection between the two; if something is too simple then our curiosity about it has been satiated and there just isn't any more information about it to know, and if it's very complex and we haven't yet done our homework to put the information already available into some sort of logical order in our mind then there is little desire to obtain yet more information. Yes a scientist may desire more information about puzzling phenomenon X in the hope of solving the problem, but only after he has already mastered the information already known about the strange X effect. > novelty is also in the eye of the beholder > It can be but something like a paintball splatter is novel to everyone, and it's complex too, but few would desire more information about it so it's not very interesting. > > My point is that equating creativity with difficulty seems to > simplistic. > It is too simplistic, I equated creativity with difficulty and novelty and interest. > Creativity is difficult, but it doesn't follow that difficult is creative. > True, but I would always call coming up with something that was difficult (or complex) and novel and interesting creative. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
