Creativity and The Act of Creation
An analysis of creativity and the act of creation.
The most fundamental trajectory of Conscious Design is a continuous, ongoing "Balance of Separation and Unity". From the initial "Separation Event" of the Big Bang through the "Unity Impulse" of Gravity, to our everyday lives and driving principles of society, we are constantly undulating between acts of separation/division and re-unification.
Creativity, and "The Act of Creation", is an act of separating individual components and then combining them into new, unified constructs. Procreation is an act of division of biological bodies of 3D matter, and re-unification with a partners 3D matter to create the vessel for a new conscious being to evolve.
Sometimes the creative process begins with an act of destruction, or separation of existing materials and constructs, and other times, the creator purchases or acquires already separated ingredients, and begins the process of creating something new.
A painter takes multiple colors of paint extracted from the material environment, and combines them / unifies them on a canvas to create a new idea - a new creation symbolic of 3D matter, or juxtaposing multiple moments to create a larger meaning.
A chef takes multiple ingredients from the environment and combines them / unifies them into a new construct of a meal, with unique attributes.
A programmer takes separate blocks of objective code and logic to convert them and unify them into a program that is something more than its individual parts.
A musician takes an instrument, and multiple separate 4 dimensional vibrations through time (frequencies), and combines them temporally to create a new unified song with meaning based on the juxtaposition of parts.
A builder takes multiple separate components of matter and combines them together in a new unified structure to create something more than the sum of the parts.
An inventor takes multiple components and ideas, and combines them together to create a new system which has expanded capabilities.
The "Act of Creation" is an act of separation of parts, and re-unification into new constructs, and its core to the very idea of consciousness.
Vincent van GoghArtist, Painter "Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together."
Mikhail BakuninPhilosopher, Revolutionary "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
Austin KleonWriter, Artist "Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas."
Thomas EdisonInventor, Businessman "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."