The document explores the creative process in individual and collaborative contexts, emphasizing the importance of intuition, disciplines of work and play, and the role of neuroscience in fostering creativity. It highlights how music can enhance creativity and the necessity of combining diverse perspectives for greater truth. Furthermore, it underscores the significance of maintaining objective truth amidst societal challenges and the interplay of science and spirituality in creativity.

1. Creatively Confronting COVID, Climate, & Economy
CREATIVITY: INDIVIDUAL &
COLLABORATIVE
PAUL H. CARR, PhD

2. RISE Creatively Confronting COVID, Climate, & Economy
The Creative Process
1. Individual
"There is no logical way to discover. There is only the
way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the
order.” Albert Einstein
- The 3-step creative process: informed, unformed,
transformed
- Neuroscience: listening to music inspires creativity
2. Collaborative
- Searching for truth to expand and share our limited
knowledge and worldviews.

3. CREATIVITY
• “It is by LOGIC we prove,
• It is by INSIGHT we discover.”
• Mathematician/Physicist Henri
Poincaré (1854 -1912)
• First person to discover a
chaotic deterministic system which
laid the foundations of
modern chaos theory.

4. :
"There is no logical way to discover. There is only the way of
intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order.”
Albert Einstein
lying behind the the appearance".

5. 5
Psychologist Rollo May, student and friend of Tillich, noted that the title of his book was suggested
by The Courage to Be. “We express our being by creating.”

6. THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Balancing Work & Play
• WORK:
• 1. INFORMED: Immersion, engagement, intense concentration
on problem, 10,000 hours of practice.
• 2. UNFORMED: Incubation, logical impasse, in which
conscious thought is useless.
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• PLAY:
• 3. TRANSFORMED: Illumination, “aha,” “eureka,” when
relaxed.
• Meister Eckhart, 1260-1328, German Mystic Theologian
• Rollo May, The Courage to Create
• Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark & the Jaguar: Adventures in Simple & Complex

7. Immersion
Hypothesis
New Insight
Incubation
Non-supporting data
Illumination
New Discovery
Courage

8. CREATIVITY
CONFLICTCOURAGE
THE CREATIVE CYCLE

9. 1. Beta emited when we are consciously alert, or
we feel agitated, tense, afraid, with frequencies
ranging from 13 to 60 pulses per second in the
Hertz scale. NOT CREATIVE
2 .Alpha when we are in a state of physical and
mental relaxation, although aware of what is
happening around us, its frequency are around 7
to 13 pulses per second.
3 Theta more or less 4 to 7 pulses, it is a state of
somnolence with reduced consciousness.
4 Delta when there is unconsciousness, deep
sleep or catalepsy, emitting between 0.1 and 4
cycles per second. Dreams can be creative.
Electrical Brain Waves

10. “Cosmic religious
sense of the marvelous
order in nature...”
• After completing his
Ph. D. at the Swiss
Institute of Technology
(ETH) , expected to
receive an assistant
professorship.
• Instead he had to take
a “real” job at the
Swiss Patent Office.
• Einstein showed his
“courage to create” by
publishing (1905) , on
own time, the 3 papers
that made him famous.

11. Einstein's violin playing was a creative experience.

12. Listening to music lights up all areas of the brain (2011)
Scientific analysis is mainly left brain
Creative mystical revelations are right brain.
Music uses both right and left brain.

13. MUSIC CAN ENHANCE CREATIVITY
Finnish researchers have used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) to study how the brain processes different
aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound
color) in a realistic listening situation.
The study is pioneering in that it for the first time reveals
how wide networks in the brain, including areas responsible for
motor actions, emotions, and creativity, are activated during
music listening.
The new method helps us understand better the complex
dynamics of brain networks and the way music affects us.
Vinoo Alluri et. Al. Large-scale brain networks emerge from dynamic processing of
musical timbre, key and rhythm. NeuroImage, 2011; DOI:
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.019

14. Eyes closed. Open Complex Scene

15. Steve Jobs
(1955-2011)
creatively
packaged the
magnetic
hard drive in
computers
for this iPod
to play music

16. RISE Creatively Confronting COVID, Climate, & Economy
The Creative Process
1. Individual
-“It is by logic we prove. It is by insight that we discover.”
Poincare
- The 3-step creative process: informed, unformed,
transformed
- Neuroscience: listening to music inspires creativity
2. Collaborative
- Searching for truth to expand and share our limited
knowledge and worldviews.

17. The Hindu Blind men examining the elephant illustrates limited worldviews.
If they combine their limited worldviews, they could discover the true
form of the elephant.

18. MAC-MINI on
DESKTOP
A son of my friend
was a mechanical
engineer who was
on the collaborative
team of electrical
engineers &
circuit designers,
who worked at
Apple for Steve
Jobs.

19. Don Norman,
former VP of Apple
(1993 -1998) wrote in
Emotional Design
(2004):
“Positive emotions are
critical to learning,
curiosity, and creative
thought…
Being happy broadens
the thought processes
and facilitates creative
thinking.”
Mac-Mini on Desktop

20. Steve Jobs & Bill
Gates
Two Creative,
Happy, Wealthy
Entrepreneurs

22. CREATIVITY OF POSITVE EXPECTATIONS
My research team of 3 electrical engineer/scientists &
a technician ran into an insurmountable problem.
I convened a brainstorming session, which lasted for
several hours with no success.
Nevertheless, I concluded the meeting by saying hopefully:
“Lets schedule a breakthrough for next Friday.”
On the next Friday, they had solved the problem!
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In Medicine, a PLACEBO sugar pill is 20 to 30% effective.

23. Economic
Interests
Cartoon from the Union of Concerned Scientists Calendar

25. "I am a great believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended
upon to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts."
“Honest Abe” Lincoln

26. GENETICIST AND PHYSICIAN
DR. FRANCIS S. COLLINS
AWARDED 2020 TEMPLETON PRIZE
RELATING SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY
Dr Collins, who led the team that
sequenced the human genome, now
heads the National Institutes of Heath
that is developing a COVID vaccine.
He is Dr. Fauci’s boss.
“We need a renewed commitment to truth
and reason. Of all the developments that
cause me concern over the past few years,
none is greater than the growing disregard
of maintaining a high standard of objective
truth. We have no future as a society if we
abandon that framework.”

27. ”The more perspectives we learn to see from,
the more truth we have access to.”
Nietzche, 1844 – 1900, existential philosopher.
A refereed scholarly publication, reviewed by an editor
and at least one referee is closer to the TRUTH than a
Facebook posting from a friend.
NEVER TRUST A SINGLE SOURCE

28. Recommendations for
finding truth in our
edited media without
too much partisan bias
are on the next slide.
In addition to these
reliable news sources,
theweek.com is also
recommended.

29. GILBERT — Fake news is a phrase you have probably heard a lot lately. But what is fake news? Nicole Miller, director of the Gilbert Public
Library, is holding a course to teach you how to analyze information and ascertain for yourself.

30. Individual
Creativity
Social
Skills
Truth
COLLAORATIVE
CREATIVITY

31. EXAMPLE OF HOW A GROUP SOLUTION
IS MORE TRUTHFUL THAN THAT OF A
SINGE INDIVIUAL
The unanimous decision of a jury in a
criminal trial.

32. Swallowtail Butterfly
with Divine Proportion 1.618
BEAUTY in
SCIENCE & SPIRIT
Chapter 10,
”The Courage to Create
Beauty"
In creativity the mind is brought
together from various levels.
This integration is a synonym of
beauty. (Bateson)

33. Apostle Paul’s Letter to I Corinthians
8 Love (Agape) never ends.
As for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we
prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will
pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish
ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I
know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully
known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest
of these is love.
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Also HUMILITY. To influence others, one needs to be open to
being influenced.

34. RISE Creatively Confronting COVID, Climate, & Economy
The Creative Process
1. Individual
-“It is by logic we prove. It is by insight that we discover.”
Poincare
- The 3-step creative process: informed, unformed,
transformed
- Neuroscience: listening to music inspires creativity
2. Collaborative
- Searching for truth to expand and share our limited
knowledge and worldviews.