Thus, here is one point where the description of brahman by the Indian tradition clearly parallels the very dynamic
notion of creativity as becoming.
That actuality means «unification» is understandable (and, in that sense, is explained) by the way the ultimate
descriptive notion of creativity has to be conceived.
But Whitehead's
notion of creativity makes it intelligible that it «just happens,» while at the same time elucidating how it happens.
Elsewhere I have argued that Whitehead's
notion of creativity answers only to some cosmological questions about the world, leaving the more ultimate ontological ones untouched (6).
Neuroscientists are turning previously -
held notions of creativity on their heads, including the fact that creativity does not involve just a single side of the brain.
Instead of finding new and different ways to promote their books, they hope that Oprah will like it, that a J.K. Rowlings will come along, or that they can piggyback on the film rights... all at the expense of the author... the publishers are a bunch of conservative, dry, boring old duffers without a
single notion of creativity... especially when it comes to promotion, marketing, and / or sales of literacy, reading, books, and / or literature.
The similarity of the cosmic conception of brahman and
the notion of creativity has now been established.
In contrasting
his notion of creativity with Spinoza's conception of the absolute, he wrote: «In such monistic schemes, the ultimate is illegitimately allowed a final, «eminent» reality, beyond that ascribed to any of its accidents.
My point is only that
the notion of creativity in itself provides no grounds for this faith.
Furthermore, «no entity can be divorced from
the notion of creativity» (PR 213).
As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon
the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.
The discussion as to the real range of Whitehead's
notion of creativity, is more than of purely academic interest.
The Category of the Ultimate does not only contain
the notion of creativity, but also those of the many and the one.
In his introductory essay, «A Philosophy of Shared Creative Experience,» he develops
the notion of creativity through a careful polemic against determinism.
Given Gibson's critique of the way «creativity» can be loosely defined and sometimes all things to all people, it's no wonder that Miliband's
notion of creativity is one where the arts and culture act as a lever for tackling inequality.
Polished shoes, ironed trousers, a fresh button - down shirt, with the addition of long magenta socks to introduce
the notion of creativity, or perhaps particularities to the character.
As Liversidge has said: ``... the process is also about
the notion of creativity: it's important that some of the proposals are actually realized, but no more so that the others that remain only as text on a piece of A4 paper.
Breaking boundaries is basic to
our notion of creativity.