Creativity is another of the qualities that is essential to the life of living beings. Keeping to the topic of human ability, it seems clear that all people are creative to a greater or lesser extent, just like with intelligence and beauty.
When the concept of creativity is used in reference to language, it is as an adjective that refers to a person who is particularly talented in comparison to the average of the rest of the population. A slightly creative person is definitely more creative than a very creative cat!
For me, a good definition of creativity is a subset of intelligence, meaning a group of basic relational or elemental functions with a high association of reliability; that is a particular subset of conditional intelligence. Strictly speaking, this last requirement is essential for intelligence; if the brain's functions responsible for creating logical relations often make mistakes, this would not be intelligence, but rather something else that I call intuition, but, if mistakes were almost always made, this would be called a lack of intelligence.
This subset is formed by those functions that make the creation, design, invention, imagination, etc. of new concepts or ideas easier.
The demand of high reliability for creativity appears paradoxical because it does not seem that the same justification of gravity of possible error that we used for intelligence, can be applied in this instance.
Not only is an error not considered something serious in creative processes, but mistakes are also considered normal. Nonetheless, given that creativity requires various successive operations to be carried out in order to exist, if errors are made by elemental functions, it is not very likely that the final result will be good; we may find new creations due to chance but not creativity.
However, we should not lose sight of the fact that an absolute conceptual definition of creativity is not easy, as we have also previously cited, language is precisely characterized by the contrary of this. The possibility that one of the important causes behind creation is due to a defective function in sensorial perception is widely accepted in regards to certain important artistic creations.
On the other hand, if we think about the specific subset of the functions of creativity, we will realize that they deal with particularly complex functions of intelligence; that is, if we were talking about more packets of elemental functions in which all should operate with a high degree of reliability. Therefore, it is not so much that the complex function (creativity) does not generate errors, but rather that the elemental functions or parts (intelligence) do not generate them.
When the concept of creativity is used in reference to language, it is as an adjective that refers to a person who is particularly talented in comparison to the average of the rest of the population. A slightly creative person is definitely more creative than a very creative cat!
For me, a good definition of creativity is a subset of intelligence, meaning a group of basic relational or elemental functions with a high association of reliability; that is a particular subset of conditional intelligence. Strictly speaking, this last requirement is essential for intelligence; if the brain's functions responsible for creating logical relations often make mistakes, this would not be intelligence, but rather something else that I call intuition, but, if mistakes were almost always made, this would be called a lack of intelligence.
This subset is formed by those functions that make the creation, design, invention, imagination, etc. of new concepts or ideas easier.
The demand of high reliability for creativity appears paradoxical because it does not seem that the same justification of gravity of possible error that we used for intelligence, can be applied in this instance.
Not only is an error not considered something serious in creative processes, but mistakes are also considered normal. Nonetheless, given that creativity requires various successive operations to be carried out in order to exist, if errors are made by elemental functions, it is not very likely that the final result will be good; we may find new creations due to chance but not creativity.
However, we should not lose sight of the fact that an absolute conceptual definition of creativity is not easy, as we have also previously cited, language is precisely characterized by the contrary of this. The possibility that one of the important causes behind creation is due to a defective function in sensorial perception is widely accepted in regards to certain important artistic creations.
On the other hand, if we think about the specific subset of the functions of creativity, we will realize that they deal with particularly complex functions of intelligence; that is, if we were talking about more packets of elemental functions in which all should operate with a high degree of reliability. Therefore, it is not so much that the complex function (creativity) does not generate errors, but rather that the elemental functions or parts (intelligence) do not generate them.
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