The sources I listed are all trying to demystify it, Edward de Bono explicitly so. They are saying, there are techniques, methods, and tools for coming up with new ideas, just as the Sequences are saying, there are techniques, methods, and tools for judging ideas so as to approach the truth of things.
In creativity, there is no recipe with which you can just crank the handle and it will spit out the right idea, but neither is there in rationality a recipe with which you can just crank the handle and come up with a proof of a conjecture.
neither is there in rationality a recipe with which you can just crank the handle and come up with a proof of a conjecture
to be clear, coming up with proofs is a central example of what i meant by creativity. (“they are not satisfied by avoiding failure conditions, but require the satisfaction of some specific, hard-to-find success condition”)
The sources I listed are all trying to demystify it, Edward de Bono explicitly so. They are saying, there are techniques, methods, and tools for coming up with new ideas, just as the Sequences are saying, there are techniques, methods, and tools for judging ideas so as to approach the truth of things.
In creativity, there is no recipe with which you can just crank the handle and it will spit out the right idea, but neither is there in rationality a recipe with which you can just crank the handle and come up with a proof of a conjecture.
yep not contesting any of that
to be clear, coming up with proofs is a central example of what i meant by creativity. (“they are not satisfied by avoiding failure conditions, but require the satisfaction of some specific, hard-to-find success condition”)