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Creativity:
An Exploration into the formation of Creative Thoughts within the Human Mind
Senior Integration Project
By: Gregory Thibodeau
Fall 2006
Table of Contents:
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………….. 1
Seeing Creatively……………………………………………………………………... 5
Locating Creativity…………………………………………………………………… 7
Physiology of Creativity……………………………………………………………… 16
Damaged Creativity…………………………………………………………………... 21
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….. 26
Introduction
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. For many people; including me, this is our Genesis, the foundational beginning of out religious beliefs. To others, it is the beginning of an elaborate “fairy-tale” created in order to provide those in need of a supreme higher-being willing to watch over and protect them. As, psychologist and cognitive scientist, Stephen Pinker explains, “ one of the reasons God was invented was to be the mind that formed and executed life’s plans” (Pinker, 156) Still, to others, that statement has no meaning, because they lack the cognitive higher reasoning abilities that would enable them to comprehend such an abstract statement. Regardless, though, of how that statement, or to that matter any novel work or thought, is understood and produced every normally functioning human on the face of this earth has the unique ability to form and understand creative thoughts and concepts.
What made Michelangelo capable of such masterpieces? Why is a five year old capable of creating an elaborate tale of adventure and intrigue to explain the broken lamp? If you were asked to solve this puzzle by connecting all nine dots with only four lines, and without taking your pencil off the paper, could you do it?
Unless you’ve seen this problem before you probably stared at the puzzle constructing several different scenarios in which to answer the riddle. What you did in this scenario is...