Creativity & Inventiveness (expanded)

[Inventing]

Creativity & Inventiveness - An article showing how love inspires us
to invent and create. The reason why we invent is to create more love,
happiness and good humor now, not so we can say "I am better than
someone else" or "have a better idea". Shows exactly how love and
kindness makes it so much easier to invent and create. This includes
not only inventing products but creating music, excelling in art, etc.
One of the misnomers of the 20th century regarding inventing claims
that intelligence is of more importance than feelings of love and
compassion. What we are finding is that the intellect, which includes
the studying of hard sciences and the ability to remember large
amounts of facts, are actually secondary faculties, with primary
importance and value being with love and kindness. The mind is
secondary to the heart. Intellect is used to help bolster love and
kindness.

Any invention or device created for the sheer purpose of "being
better" than something else, or to be "more complex" or "faster" which
doesn't help insure and prolong kindness and love, is of no value
whatsoever. Anything technical that does not help create more love and
happiness is worthless. It is a waste of time working on, developing,
inventing, or etc.
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[Haines Brown]

Post by Inventing
Creativity & Inventiveness - An article showing how love inspires us
to invent and create.

I've always found such ideas uncomfortable because they imply that
creativity is part of human nature that need not be explained. I don't
doubt the empirical truth of the assertion, but only its implied
objective idealism.

Very briefly, my own take on it is that "creativity" is found
everywhere in nature, that it is simply the effect of a constraint
upon the dissipation of something's environment. This (thermodynamic
engine) necessarily gives rise to an emergent process - one that gives
rise to novelty, to an improbable outcome.

To be creative, all we need to do is impose on the enormous
dissipation that occurs in the brain (30% of our entire energy
dissipation?) our hopes and aspirations. Such mental structures act
only as constraints, and are not objectively ideal goals; our
creativity is not sui generis, but arises from our relation to a
dissipation of our material existence.

When it comes to love, I skate on even thinner ice, but it seems a
loving relationship is compatible with the above notion of
creativity. If one person loves another (assuming we are speaking of a
loving relationship, not an infatuation), each constrains the other
and therefore causes the emergence of the other to a new and
improbable state. This emergent new state is necessarily less simply a
function of what we were, our initial state, but a function of the
other person. We struggle to realize our own potentials through
embracing the constraint of the other. The result is a bond that does
not submerge individuality, but realizes individuality through
solidarity with another.

I would really benefit from someone picking this argument apart.