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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Sun 05/23/10 11:45 AM
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The video is just another example of the principle of 'aspect ratio' ... it's the same principle that makes it difficult to determine whether an airplane in shadow (silhouette) is approaching or departing ...
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Edited by
redonkulous
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Sun 05/23/10 02:01 PM
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Creativity is subjective.
Regarding the creativity of "technically oriented" people...
I work as a software engineer and most of my colleagues would be considered highly intelligent, orderly, business folks. I would challenge anyone to match the creativity of these folks against any artist. I am sorry its merely a subjective cultural construct where we label artistic pursuits as highly creative and practical pursuits as less creative. I have also been immersed in the artistic community, as an actor, a singer, and musician I have spent tons of time around artistic people and found that the vast majority of art is a hodge podge of previous concepts brought together with a spin that makes it appear new and unique, which is common to most human endeavors. Cutting edge technologically sophisticated companies house the worlds most elite creative minds; and in a day to day encounter most people would not go out of their way to label these people as creative. Cutting edge technology/science requires creativity in a way art never will. To be the first in a new revolutionary design/scientific-method is a challenge that requires hundreds and sometimes thousands of innovations to achieve. New cutting edge and highly creative art will tend to have at most a handful of new ideas. So I tend to think its a narrow view that holds the conclusions of the above mentioned research as poignant. I couldn't agree more. I too am a software engineer and in my 25 years experience in the field, the computer programmers I have known tend toward a high percentage of musicians. Of course that's just anecdotal evidence, and very possibly "confirmation biased" since I am an amateur musician myself. Well that's easy the whole idea is simplistic, or perhaps just a little too black and white for such a complex topic. We are all both right and left brained individuals. The connections between hemispheres is complete and fully function in the vast majority of adults. Modern research has highlighted that the associations between left and right do play a role in the technical mastery of a wide range of skills, however it has also debunked the oversimplification that is the right-left brain distinction of skill mastery. Whats interesting to me is that the cognitive structures found on the left and right side of the brain are somewhat different in some ways, but also flexible enough to be re-tasked in the case of TBI (traumatic brain injury). These structures are able to provide the same capabilities if they are able to remap the connections in such a way as to remodel the previous functionality, which also remodels the previous network of connections. Its all about topology, but left and right are far less important than which cognitive apparatus connects to what other cognitive apparatus. A great example of a person who does not have the connections between left and right brain via the corpus collosum is the person who inspired Rain man, Kim Peek. We can learn alot about the anatomy of the brain, its connections and how that alters the functionality of the brain via these kinds of examples. So in that regard I think this is a wonderful post, and the idea of left and right brained people has something to it, but its antiquated and oversimplified to a large degree and as our understanding of the brain grows we have learned to not place people into such simple groupings as left and right. |
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Creativity is subjective. I work as a software engineer and most of my colleagues would be considered highly intelligent, orderly, business folks. I would challenge anyone to match the creativity of these folks against any artist. I am sorry its merely a subjective cultural construct where we label artistic pursuits as highly creative and practical pursuits as less creative. I have also been immersed in the artistic community, as an actor, a singer, and musician I have spent tons of time around artistic people and found that the vast majority of art is a hodge podge of previous concepts brought together with a spin that makes it appear new and unique, which is common to most human endeavors. Cutting edge technologically sophisticated companies house the worlds most elite creative minds; and in a day to day encounter most people would not go out of their way to label these people as creative. Cutting edge technology/science requires creativity in a way art never will. To be the first in a new revolutionary design/scientific-method is a challenge that requires hundreds and sometimes thousands of innovations to achieve. New cutting edge and highly creative art will tend to have at most a handful of new ideas. So I tend to think its a narrow view that holds the conclusions of the above mentioned research as poignant. to put new solutions, new products, new ideas out there i have an acronym for almost everything BTW |
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Creativity is subjective. I work as a software engineer and most of my colleagues would be considered highly intelligent, orderly, business folks. I would challenge anyone to match the creativity of these folks against any artist. I am sorry its merely a subjective cultural construct where we label artistic pursuits as highly creative and practical pursuits as less creative. I have also been immersed in the artistic community, as an actor, a singer, and musician I have spent tons of time around artistic people and found that the vast majority of art is a hodge podge of previous concepts brought together with a spin that makes it appear new and unique, which is common to most human endeavors. Cutting edge technologically sophisticated companies house the worlds most elite creative minds; and in a day to day encounter most people would not go out of their way to label these people as creative. Cutting edge technology/science requires creativity in a way art never will. To be the first in a new revolutionary design/scientific-method is a challenge that requires hundreds and sometimes thousands of innovations to achieve. New cutting edge and highly creative art will tend to have at most a handful of new ideas. So I tend to think its a narrow view that holds the conclusions of the above mentioned research as poignant. to put new solutions, new products, new ideas out there i have an acronym for almost everything BTW 'Creativity' is painting a shoe blue. 'Artistic' is painting the shoe the right SHADE of blue. |
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What a dull world this would be if there were not creative and artistic people. Many people do not understand them. However
Thats OK |
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What a dull world this would be if there were not creative and artistic people. Many people do not understand them. However Thats OK |
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I think it 's the vision that creative people have. It can inhibit understanding if not presented or communicated well. Creative people - really uniquely truly creative people- can "see" things - often the big picture, or finished product before they can explain it, and often they know just how to implement the process it will require - communicating all of that is , however, often another art...jmho from situations I have been involved in
I like this - and its consistent with my opinion that fixing a broken car, or writing software can be highly creative activities. Depending on the situation, they can also be so routine as to not require any creativity. |
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