Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The nature of the 'genie' of creativity

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* Genius can be conceptualized as a 'genie' within us - the word genie being derived from the Roman concept of a guardian and tutel...
Monday, 26 January 2015

The way of the subcreator - the 'genie' of genius

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* In considering creativity from a scientific perspective, much can be said - but at the heart of the phenomenon there is a mystery. I ...
Sunday, 25 January 2015

The 'inner' nature of trait Psychoticism - hard-wired to be inner-attentive, inner-aware, inner-engaged, inner-motivated - an alternative to the broad-association/ natural selection model of creativity

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* If the standard 'natural selection' model of creativity is regarded as deficient, as previously argued - I mean the 'Simonto...

What is the creative bit of creativity in high Psychoticism-trait individuals (such as creative geniuses)?

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* It is worth noting at the outset that here I am doing science, and science rules out using supernatural explanations - so if creativity r...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Psychosis and creativity - Creativity is a coordinated, adaptive package - and *not* just a lucky combinations of deficits

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* In what follows I will argue that the Psychosis (or the psychotic phenomena) which characterise enhanced Creativity are distinct in form...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Psychoticism versus Psychosis: the personality trait of Psychoticism versus the illness state of being Psychotic

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* HJ Eysenck deserves primary credit for discovering and formulating the personality trait of Psychoticism (P) - but I believe the concept ...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Psychoticism versus Psychopathy

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* Eysenck's personality trait of Psychoticism is - overall - probably the best description of the typical personality of a creative in...
Saturday, 10 January 2015

CG Jung - the dishonest genius

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* CG Jung is unusual among geniuses, in that he was dishonest about his own work and its implications. That he was a genius I think is co...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Why should modern society - why should *any* society - be bothered about geniuses?

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* The reason is not that geniuses deserve more concern than other kinds of people - the bottom-line reason is societal self-interest. G...
Friday, 2 January 2015

Three lessons from the Genius Triad (Questing Creative Intelligence - QCI)

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* The Genius Triad is intelligence, creativity and long-term self-motivation - all focused on the same domain. Psychologically the triad ...
Tuesday, 30 December 2014

How is genius useful? Mainly by promoting group cohesion

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* I believe that (in some way) genius is group-selected, which means it is for the reproductive benefit of the group, i.e. to expand the si...
Monday, 29 December 2014

Genius is a DWEM kind of thing, hence its current unpopularity

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* Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray (2003) makes clear that world-historical, genius level accomplishment is - or rather, was - nume...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Tolkien was more creative; Lewis was more intelligent: Creative Triad aspects of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis

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* It is the rare combination of spontaneous creativity with high intelligence and a strong motivation which typically fuels high leve...
Monday, 22 December 2014

Isaac Newton as an archetypal Creative Triad Genius

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* I realized recently that I lacked specific knowledge of the psychology of perhaps the greatest ever scientific genius: Isaac Newton; so I...

What is intuition? The mode of thought characteristic of the soul

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* I think something can be said about intuition - mostly indirect and negative-definition; but it is useful to know some-things about intui...
Friday, 19 December 2014

Red Queen natural selection (mutation selection balance) is universal, primary, normal and normative: My conceptual breakthrough of the the year

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* Natural selection is not primarily about the creation of new complex forms, but about the preservation of already-existing complex form. ...
Thursday, 18 December 2014

Creativity is transcendentally the opposite of fashion

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* Creativity is nowadays frequently confused with - but must be distinguished from,  fashion - because the one is essentially good (althoug...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Creativity as the process and outcome of structuring (subjective) emotions to conform with the (objective) field of interest

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* This basic idea originated in my book Psychiatry and the Human Condition - see excerpt below - but I think I can now formulate it more c...