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Why does anyone do anything creative, if it’s not necessary to do so? Who are you to say that their feeling regarding the nature of a particular phenomenon is i

• andrepd 8y ago
  I'm not sure I follow. He has no authority nor knowledge nor evidence to make those claims. Last year I had the immense privilege of attending a concert of perhaps the greatest piano virtuoso alive today. I was enthralled. Then after the concert finished, he expounded his views on why sound is a divine phenomenon, and that the wave theory of sound is a conspiracy peddled by scientists, easily disproven by simple experiments, as well as a confusing argument of why the sun revolves around the earth. Am I supposed to take this seriously because it's a, how do you put it, a creative view? I reiterate, nothing about my opinion of his performance changed due to this; those are entirely different concerns.
  • sincerely 8y ago
    Sometimes it's interesting to hear what incredibly talented creative people think, from their perspective, because their understanding of the world likely in some way influences their work. That doesn't mean we should accept it as factual of course (especially in cases where it is trivially untrue to people who are educated in the field) but it still has some interest to other creatives, etc. I don't think you're supposed to "take it seriously" i.e. consider it a genuine contender for an objective truth but instead think about how it may inform a creative process to believe in a world with different fundamental principles etc. Or at least that's how I interpret this kind of material. But I tend to give everybody way too much credit and maybe this is being peddled as hack psuedoscience but hey, death of the author ;P