The evolutionary process has some wonderful tools at hand to help the advancement of the mind. Creativity is one of them. Ironically it is the mind alone that hinders its progress because of its limitations.
A new study by Jennifer S. Mueller of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, says:
“Most of us profess to love creativity. But we recoil when it stares us in the face, according to a new study that seems to lodge a quiet indictment against the whole human race.” And
“The problem that perhaps most interferes with our recognition and appreciation for real-life creativity, they claim, is that creativity usually comes with a side dish of uncertainty: Will this new idea actually work? What will people think of me if I accept it?”
Creativity as a force for showing us the “new” operates well on its own, but it is the editing in the mind that is the hindrance. It is easier to live with the past in anything we do as it is easily recognisable to the mind of the masses. This is especially true if you have something to sell. But even scientists who are suggesting an idea or invention also has this problem of putting out the absurd even if it is true. Editing in the mind comes out of fear of being ridiculed but it is really a case of dealing with an audience who’s minds are firmly placed in the past for recognising anything that it tries to makes sense of. This is especially true in the Art’s. The only medium that is free to be anything it wants to be. Good and “bad” should be allowed to flourish giving both a platform to prove itself in the minds of its viewers. The work evolves when the mind sees its limitations and progresses. The work is only a manifestation of the mind. If your next piece of work is like your last, then the mind is
still sitting on
the bank of the river
quietly fishing.
The Arts is the only medium that is capable of taking creativity to its extremes. Its manifestations show us the ridiculous of possibilities that we can make with our medium of choice. This will show us our limitations or not in our minds and the progress we can make into the future. But if we worry about what we put out there, after the process of creativity has showed us what might be possible is to let the process down and then also to let youself down after the discovery. It is much easier to live with the known, than to struggle with the unknown and to leap into the void and live in darkness with the ‘new’ in art.
“The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identifying how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity,” Mueller and colleagues wrote. “If people hold an implicit bias against creativity, then we cannot assume that organizations, institutions or even scientific endeavours will desire and recognize creative ideas even when they explicitly state they want them.”
This process of having everything of the mind, all out there for us to see might just show us if our minds really do have limitations. Can we see past nature? Can we see past what nature allows us to see? As the creative wheels turns and opens up a new world for us to see: but then how far can it take us. What are the limitations of the process itself? Can we cross the line of the ‘new’ in nature and over the edge to see the truly ‘new’ that is not in the realm of our psyche, for now. What are our real limitations? Can some of them be coming from the fragmented nature of us beings? Will creativity have a greater power when the beings harmonise in mind rather than being fragmented. It that where the next big ‘new’ thing is going to come from? When the psyche of all the beings harmonise into one? Is that when we will see the creative process unite to one big thing, creating things we will never be able to see for now.
For now we have to satisfy ourselves to see that society is really a manifestation of our inner selves, so we can see ourselves in it to understand ourselves better. Society sits on top of nature acting as a manifestation of the minds of all those living in it, like an artist manifesting a work of art. Objects in society are manifested by the mind. The roads, the houses you know where they came from: from the mind. But that tree in your garden belongs to nature and not society and where did that tree come from?
Society is like an Artist installation made by the mind and it is not “real”, like nature is real.
(http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/111212_creativity.htm)