May 7ths
5/7/1998 Book: Margaret Boden’s The Creative Mind. She said that tonality in music contains the seeds of its own destruction (referring to serial music). It’s interesting to compare books about creativity. Those who focus on the psychological aspects infer that the act of creation is predicated on the playing out of unconscious elements, and those who focus on the workings of the brain featuring the conscious elements. I prefer the latter, but five years ago I would have leaned more towards the former. Constraints on thinking...make certain mental structures possible.” Discover a process or way of working and have it generate the product, then start breaking the rules. This is like making a meal from a recipe, but changing measurements, spicing, and so on to fit your taste. [5/7/2026: If you didn't break your own rules, creativity would become too stiff. Technically, it's called "rule drift"] ["Discuss rules"] 5/7/1999, Friday Re: E.O. Wilson’s Consil...
