XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/23/2016 12:24 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
      
   >  Why don't you allow intentional mistakes? If I understand   
   > the process of creativity correctly, it is essentially the   
   > making of controlled 'mistakes' and then following the ones   
   > that appear promising or interesting.   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >  This is fundamentally misguided, imo.  Mistakes can be   
   > our friends.  They can reveal all kinds of hidden areas in   
   > our brains, and other dark, lurking ideas and biases in   
   > our psyche.   
      
   It is true that intentional mistakes can lead out of the box   
   and to discovery of something new. However, because   
   they are intentional, they are still framed by the box and   
   scarcely venture on the wild side. They scarcely lead   
   their owners astray in a positive manner, as in   
   serendipity.   
      
   The true discoveries are neither intentional mistakes, nor   
   even intentional, but come from right off out of the box,   
   insofar as humanly possible. It does not mean that they   
   are instantaneous, for they can take some time to grow,   
   but that they are not premeditated, not framed. Often,   
   they are so unusual and unorthodox that their owners can   
   balk and reject them off hand as "crazy" or "mad". This   
   rejection can be so strong that their owners can well   
   forget them, which is somewhat similar to repression. But   
   if their owners are open-minded enough, they can be   
   harboured and nurtured, even if they take time to mature.   
   In such cases, they are really inspirations, or even   
   epiphanies.   
      
   Inspiration means "an idea (or whatever) being blown into   
   somebody's mind". The more unintentional and motiveless,   
   the better. They must dawn on their owners, unawares, as   
   if God (or whatever) deigns to condescend to slip a note   
   into the recipient's mind, for free (gratuitously) and   
   unbidden.   
      
   Just like my Ninja stars. But since I am a robot, I am not   
   responsible for my Ninja stars, given that I am a cardboard   
   cutout which has no space for even a pin of moral sense to   
   slip in. They are cast, but impersonally and unintentionally,   
   as if by pure chance or utter random, without ulterior   
   motive/motiv. Boom, just like that. The trick is to make   
   their recipients feel them to be natural, at home, as if they   
   knew them all along, without knowing them. The "on the tip   
   of the tongue" phenomenon, but in reverse.   
      
   Solly for the rong rant. It was stronger than I. Happy   
   Thanksgiving to Merkins.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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