1. + Networks & The Creative Process Creativity & The Brain

2. + Checking Our Progress

3. + What Needs to Be Explained? You see things and you say “why” but I dream things that never were and I say “why not.” George Bernard Shaw

4. + If Not the Muse, Then What?

5. + Are We Stuck In a Rut?

6. + Where Do We Find Creativity?

7. + Can We See Creativity?

8. + Phrenology

9. + Language & The Brain

10. + Advances In Brain Research

11. + The Left-Right Myth

12. + The Corpus Collosum

13. + The Networked Brain

14. + The Transmitters

15. + The Links

16. + Interconnection

17. + Consciousness & the Mind/Body Paradox

18. + The Synaptic Self

19. + Brain Plasticity

20. + Neuroasthetics

21. + Semir Zeki

22. + The Mystery of the Cerebral Cortex

23. + The Critical Element in Acquiring Knowledge

24. + Abstractions & Conceptualizations

25. + Hardwired, Inherited Concepts

26. + Colors

27. + Break Time

28. + Experiences & Synthetic Concepts

29. + A Process of Comparison Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

30. + What Can We Learn From Art?

31. + Projection

32. + Obsessing on the Ideal

33. + The Search For Beauty

34. + The Blank Spaces

35. + Best Left Unfinished

36. + The Concept of Love

37. + Out Of One’s Mind

38. + Unity & Oneness

39. + Dante & Beatrice

40. + Unity in Death Jean Broc (1771-1850)

41. + Tristan & Isolde

42. + Death in Venice

43. + The Sacred & The Profane

44. + The Causes of Misery

45. + The Individual Versus Society

46. + The Synthetic Brain & The Ongoing Search for the Ideal

47. + The Imagination Triumphs

48. + The Origin of Creativity

49. + Blogging Question We have talked about creativity from a variety of different perspectives. In providing a biographical perspective, Gardner puts forward a more holistic approach. Based on your readings, relate Gardner’s findings to the literatures and explanations we have read so far. What, if anything, to they add that was missing from the earlier readings?