Session 3

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Video Index

  • Creativity and the nature of the universe / religion. What was the nature of the creativity of the creation?
  • The phenomenon of the "robber baron" - people who amassed enormous fortunes and then bestowed the money upon foundations, relatives, etc.
  • The difference between intuition and instinct - Bergson and the theory of creativity. Creativity as a search for perfection? Metaphysics of Plato vs. imperfect love.
  • Having a "good" life as a creative act. Nietzsche's idea of the Superman (the artist).
  • Is learning a creative process? Can learning science / engineering be a creative process?
  • Minsky's opinions on the "emotion machine" - can people learn about their own emotions by thinking about machine emotions?
  • Margaret Boden - what is creativity? Inventiveness of two sorts - superficial (exploratory), and inventive.
  • What is existence in relation to the Catholic idea of "ensoulment"? What is it never to have existed? What happens when the light of consciousness goes out?
  • Anthony's student presentation on the week's reading - summary of the reading, interpretations.
  • Freud as a reformer in sexual politics.
  • Imagination as a personal perception of the boundlesness of creativity. Humans are bounded by their imagination. How imagination changes the concept of the world.
  • Discussion of Proust.

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