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How do these videos further your understanding of creativity, which talk give you a better understanding of your creative potential, etc.
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Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
David Lynch Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
Watch "Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight"
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Connecting Denis Dutton’s talk on beauty to an understanding of creativity is an interesting intellectual exercise. Dutton proposes that beauty is best explained and best understood in terms of evolution. Specifically, what he has in mind is an attempt to explain why we are disposed to experiencing beauty. Perhaps even more strongly, with implications for whether beauty exists independently of us, he attempts to explain why we see beauty. His answer is that beauty is “an adaptive effect” – the idea is that, by natural and sexual selection, nature has set us up in such a way that seeing something or someone as beautiful...