What is Creativity?

Creativity is a word to describe the Logical / Mathematical Pattern Recognition and Extrapolation (called LMPRE for short) sub-process that functions in our sub-consciousness. In fact, most of our reasoning is accomplished in this way. Ideas “come to us”. They are not voluntary. We understand something when we focus on it long enough, not on command. At least I can’t. If you can great. For me, I think about the particular parameters “What order should I perform these functions?” list functions in mind, list places they are, determine shortest distances, guesstimate travel times and other roadblocks, then it comes to me: a thought, a judgment call, an itinerary is generated and “pops” into my head. You don’t “think something” you “think about something” (allow your LMPRE to process the complex relations of the problem at hand) and if you think on something long enough an answer comes to you from your LMPRE (a conclusion based on the given rules of the particular problem and the logical matrix within your understanding of reality, represented by a sub-conscious matrix of language / math and causation which is an aggregate representation of your understanding of reality). When you fail to get the right answer or think of something it is because your LMPRE has failed to take into account all the relations and variables at hand.

We can voluntarily focus our self-consciousness on a pattern to determine the relation between objects we are trying to discern, but it is from our sub-consciousness, from our intuition, namely the ever running sub-process which detects and extrapolates based on patterns of logical relations which once it finds a match for the pattern we have focused upon, it returns with the (I)idea. We see it. We then understand. We then understand and say “Oh, I see. I get it now”. Why did you not understand before if thought is voluntary? Because not all thought is voluntary. Creativity is not voluntary – it is a sub-process.

Creativity describes people who are better at doing what I have described. All humans seem to possess it, some more than others. Even animals have Problem solving and Pattern Recognition to a lesser degree. People whose LMPRE is more advanced, can spider (if you will) more of the logical matrix of belief (each node on the matrix is a proposition believed to be true, the relations are inferences from proposition to proposition) sub-consciously and come back with responses that are within (for mundane answers) or beyond (for creative answers) the current ruleset. Creative people simply have a sub-consciousness that through genetics and training (musical training for the most part: jazz and classical) have an LMPRE that can spider more of the matrix to produce exceptions further along the inference chain – further than other sub-consciousnesses. These people appear more creative. Artists do this sub-consciously – they are creative. They are “inspired”. They do not have a conscious understanding of their logical matrix of belief. The wise do this consciously – they have a conscious understanding of their logical matrix of belief, they consciously (and mush more slowly) spider the logical matrix looking for contradictions in their beliefs - improper inferences. The wise (in so far that they are wise) see the big picture and how it all interrelates – the creative (in so far that they are creative) are not consciously aware of it but see only parts, but their LMPRE comes up with exceptions to the rules by spidering deeper into the if/then scenarios and other logical relations in their matrix of belief. It’s like when you get an idea of what you need to do without even explicitly stating it in your mind. Not all thought is verbal – LMPRE certainly isn’t.

For example, when Captain Kirk re-programmed the test so that he could pass the no win situation, that’s called thinking outside the box. Creativity is exactly “thinking outside the box”. That means that psyche possesses an LMPRE that can process quicker and in more depth a larger part of the matrix at one time and as such can come back with more and better quality exception to the rules in which it was forced (by the self-consciousness) to operate under.