Emerging from the city's famous laneways, Melbourne street art takes the next step
in its creative evolution with the launch of a new art covered precinct — bringing a series of giant mural works to a long - forgotten pocket of the CBD.
González has taken the next step
in his creative evolution by returning to the folksy roots of his early career while also building off of the rhythmic ventures of Junip.
In Creative Evolution (1907), he refers to the «mutual penetration» of parts (CE 281).
In Creative Evolution he gives a more thorough analysis of the historical factors leading to Kantian relativism and the misunderstandings they involve.
The theory of differing breadths of duration, capable of extending over each other, and the notion of matter «which results from it, are further developed
in Creative Evolution through reflections on thermodynamics.
The theory of matter developed
in Creative Evolution is an exact inverse of the theory of life developed there.
That these concepts are present
in Creative Evolution is a fact easily overlooked.
The «proportionality» between consciousness and the durations of matter outlined in Matter and Memory is thus retained
in Creative Evolution.
Peirce seems to believe this, too, since he views agape as spreading among the creatures who participate
in creative evolution, and he speaks of the genius as one who acts agapastically as an individual rather than as a community.
Hausman believes that Peirce's insight is restricted in the role of eros and agape
in creative evolution, but he also suggests the fruitfulness of his insight.
For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does
in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).
Thus,
in Creative Evolution Bergson develops a theory already proposed in Mailer and Memory; namely, that matter is (a term proposed by William James) «extensive.»
However, if one examines what Whitehead says on this matter in Process and Reality, one finds something rather near to Bergson's expressed view
in Creative Evolution.
Not exact matches
Porcini spoke at the World Innovation Forum
in New York today about the
evolution of «design thinking,» a form of
creative problem solving.
In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of evolution but can you create those kind of important moments in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite importan
In other words, those happen because those are natural firsts, those happen naturally because of
evolution but can you create those kind of important moments
in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite importan
in your life and it really comes down to creating doing new things, always creating — you have to be a little more
creative when you get older to create those new things but those are the things you think about which I think are quite important.
Where we part company is
in our belief that
evolution without chance does not imply,
in a creationist sense, that «God's
creative action... was not a one - off event» -
in other words that God continually intervened to create new species.
The change that has come about
in theologies that partake of
creative and emergent
evolution can be described
in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought
in resolving the tension between science and faith.
He was vulnerable at many points, as we are now able to see; for the art of thinking forward, as we live forward, 13 or of perceiving holistically, or relationally, not only was as yet undeveloped but hardly acknowledged as being legitimate
in Western thought during Bergson's earlier years when he wrote
Creative Evolution (1911).
Hence, for God to create is the same as for him to evolve, to mature, to unite to himself;
evolution is God's
creative action expressed
in time.
There is yet a further aspect to be noted
in contrasting
creative evolution, as it has taken form within the newer ethos, with evolutionism
in its Darwinian and modernistic meaning.
The contrast between Darwinian
evolution and the
creative or emergent
evolution of recent years may be sharpened if we look more closely at the decisive notions which are seen to be formative
in each case.
Behind these works and underlying their organismic philosophy were Bergson's
Creative Evolution, which had made a deep impression on Wieman, and the radical empirical writings of William James, especially Pluralistic Universe and Essays
in Radical Empiricism.
The attempts of such seers as Teilhard de Chardin to set the whole story of
evolution in the light of the continually
creative love of God have, I believe, despite their obvious deficiencies, much to offer us.
Without intelligence, it would have remained
in the form of instinct...» (
Creative Evolution, 178).
Life
in its entirety, regarded as a
creative evolution, is something analogous; it transcends finality, if we understand by finality the realization of an idea conceived or conceivable
in advance.
In order for the world to be independent of God and to possess its own existence, or to undergo a genuine self - transcendence in evolution, its creative ground would in some way make itself absent from that world instead of overwhelming it with divine presenc
In order for the world to be independent of God and to possess its own existence, or to undergo a genuine self - transcendence
in evolution, its creative ground would in some way make itself absent from that world instead of overwhelming it with divine presenc
in evolution, its
creative ground would
in some way make itself absent from that world instead of overwhelming it with divine presenc
in some way make itself absent from that world instead of overwhelming it with divine presence.
Meland traces the growing influence of Whitehead's philosophy on the images of thought both
in modernism as stimulated by Darwinian
evolution, and changes
in the post-Darwinian era ushered
in by the
creative evolution movement
in physics.
I have tried to emphasize the reason agape is both relevant and essential
in an account of
creative evolution at the level of both the cosmic and the finite.
First, further development of the proposal that agape functions
in evolution, and specifically
in finite
creative processes, would provide a general framework within which distinctively
creative processes can be related to other processes.
Our objective is to reconstruct and explain the necessary conditions of individual free acts treated by Bergson, particularly
in Matter and Memory and
Creative Evolution.
According to
Creative Evolution, the nervous system
in higher organisms necessitates its support systems.
While it is conceivable that the physical being of man might have developed through
evolution, according to physical laws charted and explained by science, it is not conceivable that man
in his total being could exist without a
creative act by some transcendent agency, the God of the Bible being the prime suspect.
How can Christians affirm with I John 4:119 that we love because God first loved us and think it religiously unimportant that the world's
evolution is grounded
in creative, responsive love?
I should add that if I am off the mark
in suggesting such common ground, then I recommend that Peirce's account brings into focus more sharply what the central tension must be
in any metaphysics of
creative evolution.
Ours is a universe where purpose can operate if the entities that are created
in its
evolution are themselves responsive and
creative toward each new possibility of cosmic
evolution.
These references suggest Whitehead's familiarity with
Creative Evolution and Bergson's other works, to be sure, but the ideas are not utilized in any sense remotely resembling an evolutionary cosmology, or suggesting any real influence of Bergson's own variation of «emergent» evolution (cf. PR xii / vii, 33 / 49, 82 / 126, 107 / 163, 114 / 174, 209 / 319, 220 / 336, 280 / 428, 32
Evolution and Bergson's other works, to be sure, but the ideas are not utilized
in any sense remotely resembling an evolutionary cosmology, or suggesting any real influence of Bergson's own variation of «emergent»
evolution (cf. PR xii / vii, 33 / 49, 82 / 126, 107 / 163, 114 / 174, 209 / 319, 220 / 336, 280 / 428, 32
evolution (cf. PR xii / vii, 33 / 49, 82 / 126, 107 / 163, 114 / 174, 209 / 319, 220 / 336, 280 / 428, 321 / 489).
The balance issues
in his fundamental doctrine of
creative process or
evolution, which modulates between the notion of mere possibility (lacking directional influence or aim) and the notion of a rigorous directional determinism.
With each
creative advance, be it
in cosmic
evolution or
in an individual life, God becomes different.
«24 And yet it must be admitted that
in maximizing the qualitative aesthetic intensity of the cosmos its
creative ground must be held responsible for at least some of the chaos that accompanies
evolution.
I hope also, it will, by shedding further light on the place of mathematics
in Bergson's universe, allow us to make sense of the otherwise murky «vitalism» of
Creative Evolution, and of the possible heuristic value of Bergson's approach to biology.
We might try to supplement what we can objectively observe about this «
creative force» but it is likely that any further observations about the existence of a God is purely speculative and is subject to little, if any, respect at this stage
in our
evolution.
And Paul Weiss
in his Nature and Man, a book strikingly like Bergson's
Creative Evolution in the territory it covers and the positions it takes, introduces us early to the Bergsonian theory: «Things come to be.
This comes out clearly
in both Time and Free Will and
Creative Evolution where he says that to be a determinist is to hold, with Spinoza, that the future is logically contained
in the present.
In Creative Mind, he writes of a «real
evolution» which is «entirely modified within» an «internal modification» (CM 20).
But human experience has a continuity
in origin from the feelings that constituted the being of the first mammals, the reptiles from which they evolved and all individual entities prior to them
in the evolutionary sequence going back to the physicists» initially featureless universe — hence Whitehead's proposition that the cosmic
evolution of the universe «is a
creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).
In Teilhard's view of evolution, the particular consciousness or mind proper to each organism develops in a purposeful and progressive way until a multiplicity of factors, all included in the creative action of God, causes it to «boil over» into the self - conscious reflection which is humanit
In Teilhard's view of
evolution, the particular consciousness or mind proper to each organism develops
in a purposeful and progressive way until a multiplicity of factors, all included in the creative action of God, causes it to «boil over» into the self - conscious reflection which is humanit
in a purposeful and progressive way until a multiplicity of factors, all included
in the creative action of God, causes it to «boil over» into the self - conscious reflection which is humanit
in the
creative action of God, causes it to «boil over» into the self - conscious reflection which is humanity.
In this sense every step in the evolution of a new organism (be it an increase or decrease in complexity) is in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222
In this sense every step
in the evolution of a new organism (be it an increase or decrease in complexity) is in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222
in the
evolution of a new organism (be it an increase or decrease
in complexity) is in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222
in complexity) is
in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222
in Whitehead's terminology «a
creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).
Bella Towse,
Creative Strategist at Bulletproof, discusses the
evolution of the free - from market, and what brands should be doing to stand out
in an increasingly saturated market.
The etch also suggests H. erectus was integrating different domains of knowledge — thought to be a key stage
in the
evolution of our
creative minds.
«I'd like people to accept
evolution and randomness as the ultimate
creative force
in our universe.»