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CREATIVITY NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision. by Don L. F. Nilsen and Alleen Pace Nilsen 1

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  • CREATIVITY

    NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision.

    by Don L. F. Nilsen

    and Alleen Pace Nilsen

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  • Creative Christmas Dinner:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=niegc7QcilM

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  • Two Views of Creativity

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  • Creative Advertising

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  • Four undocumented Mexican students from Carl Hayden Community High School

    used creativity to defeat major research universities to receive 1st place in a robotics competition.

    Their robot had to successfully perform five different tasks.

    The competition was in a swimming pool at the University of California at Long Beach.

    The students at M.I.T. received 2nd place in this same competition.

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  • Carrot Clarinet:

    http://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4

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  • Creative Honda Ad:

    https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Dxy4n0UT82o?rel=0

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  • TYPE I: ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY

    AH!

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  • DESCRIPTIONS

    Abstract Expressionism

    Cubism

    Dada

    Expressionism

    Impressionism (Puntalism)

    Realism

    Surrealism

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  • EXAMPLES

    Camille Saint Sans Carnival of the Animals

    Ferde Grofs On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite

    Edvard Munchs The Scream

    Salvador Dalis art

    Pablo Picassos art

    Gertrude Steins writing

    Jackson Pollocks art

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  • TYPE II: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

    AH HA!

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  • DESCRIPTIONS

    Bisociative Click

    Epiphany

    Eureka Cry

    Das aha erlebnis

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  • EXAMPLES 1

    Discovering the Relationships Between:

    Tides

    The Moon

    Lodestones

    North Pole

    Amber

    Magnets

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  • EXAMPLES 2

    And Inventing:

    Electricity,

    Electromagnetic Engines

    Etc.

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  • TYPE III: COMIC INSPIRATION

    HA HA!

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  • DESCRIPTIONS

    Incongruous

    Incompatible

    Ironic

    Ludicrous

    Paradoxical

    Ridiculous

    Satiric

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  • EXAMPLES

    Anachronisms in Science Fiction

    Othello with the hiccups

    Chess player who gives his opponent a double martini

    Fultons Folly (Steamboat)

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  • SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

    CONTRAST: Convergent thinking with Divergent thinking.

    FINAL QUOTE: When everyone is thinking the same, then noone is thinking.

    Childs Play: An example of divergent thinking:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvw469GJ4y0

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  • References:

    Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York, NY: Dell, 1946.

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