CREATIVITY NOTE: All creativity requires Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision.

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CREATIVITYNOTE All creativity requires
Bisociative Thinking or Double Vision.

• by Don L. F. Nilsen
• and Alleen Pace Nilsen

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TYPE I ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY

• AH!
• ___________________________

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DESCRIPTIONS

• Abstract Expressionism
• Cubism
• Dada
• Expressionism
• Impressionism (Puntalism)
• Realism
• Surrealism

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EXAMPLES

• Camille Saint Saëns Carnival of the Animals
• Ferde Grofés On the Trail from Grand Canyon
  Suite
• Edvard Munchs The Scream
• Salvador Dalis art
• Pablo Picassos art
• Gertrude Steins writing
• Jackson Pollocks art

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TYPE II SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

• AH HA!
• _______________
• \________
• _______________/

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DESCRIPTIONS

• Bisociative Click
• Epiphany
• Eureka Cry
• Das aha erlebnis

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EXAMPLES 1

• Discovering the Relationships Between
• Tides
• The Moon
• Lodestones
• North Pole
• Amber
• Magnets

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EXAMPLES 2

• And Inventing
• Electricity,
• Electromagnetic Engines
• Etc.

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TYPE III COMIC INSPIRATION

• HA HA!
• ____________
• !_____________
• ____________i

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DESCRIPTIONS

• Incongruous
• Incompatible
• Ironic
• Ludicrous
• Paradoxical
• Ridiculous
• Satiric

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EXAMPLES

• Anachronisms in Science Fiction
• Othello with the hiccups
• Chess player who gives his opponent a double
  martini
• Fultons Folly (Steamboat)

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SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

• CONTRAST Convergent thinking with Divergent
  thinking.
• FINAL QUOTE When everyone is thinking the same,
  then noone is thinking.

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• A Creative Christmas Dinner
• http//www.youtube.com/watch_popup?featureendscre
  enNR1vniegc7QcilM
• Creativity Human Development, an On-line
  Journal,  
• http//www.creativityjournal.net/

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• References
• Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York,
  NY Dell, 1946.
• Mey, Jacob. Pragmatics An Introduction, 2nd
  Edition. Malden, MA Blackwell, 2001.
• Veale, Tony. Exploding the Creativity Myth The
  Computational Foundations of Linguistic
  Creativity. New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic
  Publicshing, 2012.