¶ Creation
Index Entry
Creation:
"No I don’t like to use the word ‘creativity,’ and I don’t even like the word ‘creation.’ The mind is properly concerned with generalized principles and to qualify as generalized principles they must be devoid of exceptions–i.e., eternal.
"Man does not create, he only discovers and employs. He did not create the lever, nor did he invent the lever… he can invent new uses for the lever but not its principle.
“What humans refer to as creation involves a beginning and an end. Human beings deal only with apprehending special case, inherently terminable, phenomena. Only brains ask for beginnings and endings. Human mind discovers the eternal interrelationships existing between special case phenomena that are not predicted… and characteristics of system’s parts when each is considered only separately. Since human mind deals with the eternal, original ‘creation’ is an untenable concept. What people mean by creative is special case inventive use of eternal principles.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Robert Lialesky at NPR taping, Wash.DC; 28 Mar’77; rewritten at 3200, Idaho, 29 Mar’77
