Video Index
- Creativity and the nature of the universe / religion. What was the nature of the creativity of the creation?
- The phenomenon of the "robber baron" - people who amassed enormous fortunes and then bestowed the money upon foundations, relatives, etc.
- The difference between intuition and instinct - Bergson and the theory of creativity. Creativity as a search for perfection? Metaphysics of Plato vs. imperfect love.
- Having a "good" life as a creative act. Nietzsche's idea of the Superman (the artist).
- Is learning a creative process? Can learning science / engineering be a creative process?
- Minsky's opinions on the "emotion machine" - can people learn about their own emotions by thinking about machine emotions?
- Margaret Boden - what is creativity? Inventiveness of two sorts - superficial (exploratory), and inventive.
- What is existence in relation to the Catholic idea of "ensoulment"? What is it never to have existed? What happens when the light of consciousness goes out?
- Anthony's student presentation on the week's reading - summary of the reading, interpretations.
- Freud as a reformer in sexual politics.
- Imagination as a personal perception of the boundlesness of creativity. Humans are bounded by their imagination. How imagination changes the concept of the world.
- Discussion of Proust.
