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lchic - 04:43am Sep 5, 2002 EST (# 4192 of 4197)

Creativity (8) Howard Gruber

Gruber: "Although I'm not really going to speak about peace today, the underlying thought behind everything that we do really has to be the continuation of the struggle for world peace. That is the indispensible requirement for all human creativity and all future acts of love. Without peace, there will be no survival and no humanity."
http://www.noetic.org/Ions/publications/review_archives/06/issue06_21.html

"" In seeking to distinguish between creative work and creativity, Gruber demonstrates that creation is not the result of "a set of properties that a person has in a certain moment and carries around with him." "The question," in fact, he notes, "is really not the 'ivity' of it--the property list--but how people go about doing it when they do it" ("From Epistemic Subject" 175).

"" Since it is indisputably the fact that "Creative works are constructed over long periods of time," the laboratory simply cannot measure them ("From Epistemic Subject" 171-72). Gruber remains highly suspicious of researchers willing to make "inductive leaps from college sophomores doing ten minute paper and pencil tests to individuals who organize their whole lives for creative work" ("And the Bush" 274). Convinced that true creation "must have some function other than to torment behaviorists" ("Inching" 254), Gruber seeks to "escape from the laboratory of N = 30, N = 60, etc., into the case study, where N = 1, because . . . the individual is worth knowing" ("From Epistemic Subject" 170).

...... His research into the creative process has instead revealed again and again something much more basic: "a different organization of the system, an organization that was constructed by the person himself in the course of his life, in the course of his work, as needed in order to meet the tasks that he encountered and that he set himself"
Creative Work: On the Method of Howard Gruber http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/Gruber/cwomhg.htm

In another Gruber essay we find the following: "How does a creative person know what is new for him? What is new for others?" (1981a, 50). And in "From Epistemic Subject to Unique Creative Person at Work," Gruber observes that "The question of novelty--a question introduced via Piaget's genetic epistemology--is central." "How is it," he goes on to ask, "that certain individuals have devoted their lives or large portions of their lives to the construction of novelty?" ("From Epistemic Subject," 171). "The main question," after all, "isn't exactly how they solve their problems, but where the problems come from" ("From Epistemic Subject" 178). Questions are thus as important as answers. As Gruber's research has discovered, "Rather than thinking in order to solve problems, the person striving to develop a new point of view solves problems in order to explore different aspects of it and of those problems and of those domains to which those problems apply" ["Emergence" 6]. Such a characterization, of course, applies to Gruber himself.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/Gruber/cwomhg.htm#gruber's%20methodology

Topics - creativity
http://www.academicpress.com/creative/crearts.htm

lchic - 05:49am Sep 5, 2002 EST (# 4193 of 4197)

Creativity (9) Young J G

• Myths are metaphors containing psychological truths. They are written in symbolic, rather than literal language. We are still creating myths to give meaning to our world.
• Cosmogonic or origin myths suggest multiple kinds of beginnings.
• There is no set starting procedure. Creativity is no linear process, but an organic wholistic process. One begins "all over."
• Different perspectives must converge together in an integrated fashion thus some viewpoints have to be altered to fit the theme as a whole.
• Rebellion is often part of the innovative process.
• Creative beginnings are hard, unclear, arbitrary and uncertain.

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