Comments on: Isaac Asimov on Creativity

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:40:09 +0000

That struck me too, Wrath.

By: Wrath

Wrath — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:13:22 +0000

It is just me or is Asimov describing the exact functions and parameters of a role playing game session such as AD&D?

By: Bert E.

Bert E. — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:20:27 +0000

Isaac is one of the smartest humans that has ever lived without doubt.

And before he died wrote down all the ideas he had for future generations to follow up on.

He also worked at the Philadelphia Naval Yard during WW2 on classified projects. Along with the other science fiction writers L. Sprague de Camp and Robert Heinlein. I wonder exactly what they were working on? Perhaps there is some sort of truth to the much publicized “Philadelphia Experiment”?

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:27:56 +0000

The fact that the cross-connection has to be correct doesn’t obviate the need for creativity in coming up with the cross-connection.

By: Andrea Ostrov Letania

Andrea Ostrov Letania — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:22:16 +0000

In science, the cross-connection has to be correct.

So, in the end, there is no personal creativity in science because the product of ‘creativity’ has to conform to reality. There is only one real possibility.

In contrast, a free form of creativity need not be correct. It only needs to be provocatively imaginative and personal or unique. Science-fiction is creative in this sense since it doesn’t have to conform to the narrowly real.