Creativity: The science behind the madness | Rainn Wilson, David Eagleman & more | Big Think
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An all-star cast of Big Thinkers-actors Rainn Wilson and Ethan Hawke; composer Anthony Brandt; neuroscientists David Eagleman, Wendy Suzuki, and Beau Lotto; and psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman-share how they define creativity and explain how our brains uniquely evolved for the phenomenon.
According to Eagleman, during evolution there was an increase in space between our brain's input and output that allows information more time to percolate. We also grew a larger prefrontal cortex which "allows us to simulate what ifs, to separate ourselves from our location in space and time and think about possibilities."
Scott Barry Kaufman details 3 brain networks involved in creative thinking, and Wendy Suzuki busts the famous left-brain, right-brain myth.
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TRANSCRIPT:
RAINN WILSON: Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There's artistry in everything that we do.
ANTHONY BRANDT: The fact of the matter is we all are born with a creative license. We have this software running in our brains.
DAVID EAGLEMAN: What is it that's special about the human brain that allows creativity to happen? Because when you look at us compared to all the other species on the earth we have very similar brains. I mean obviously we're cousins with our nearest neighbors and all throughout the animal kingdom, it's a continuous family tree, but we're running around the planet doing something unbelievable. You don't have squirrels going to the moon or dogs inventing the Internet or cows doing theater plays for one another or any of the gajillion things that we do. What is below all of that? What is the basic cognitive software that's running in the human brain that takes ideas in and smushes them up and crunches them. It's like a food processor that's constantly spitting out new ideas.
SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN: So, many of you might have heard of the left brain right brain myth about creativity, that the left brain is not related to creativity much at all because it's really boring and logical and super serious and analytical, and that the right brain is where all the artistic beauty comes out and it's very poetic. Well, the reality is that creativity involves an interaction of lots of different brain networks that rely on both the left side and the right side of the brain.
WENDY SUZUKI: It really is the most creative people are using both sides of the brain together. So, this is an important concept that the brain is subdivided into two major hemispheres. We have two of each structure, almost all the structures of our brain are paired. So, the idea is well one side of the brain is for certain things and the other side of the brain is important for other things and the one thing we can say for sure is yes language is on the left side of the brain. But for creativity it actually makes more sense to me that with a function so broad as that you would benefit from having the most crosstalk possible between all parts of your brain, in fact that's what the neuroscience is showing.
KAUFMAN: When you have lots of different parts of the brain that are communicating with each other to solve a certain task then it's called a brain network. And you find that creativity draws on multiple interacting brain networks. In particular it draws on three brain networks that seem to be absolutely essential to creativity across whatever field it is, whether it's science or its art. One of those brain networks that is important is what's called the executive attention network. And the executive attention network allows you to integrate lots of information in your head at one time, hold stuff in your working memory, maintain strategies that you're currently working on at one time so you don't forget what your strategy is or forget what you already did and then redo it. The executive attention network it's also helpful for inhibiting the obvious responses or the first things that comes to your mind. And so, creativity is important to access remote associations so the executive attention network is going to be helpful to inhibit the most immediate obvious things that come to mind. People who are very good improv artists, for...
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"Language is at the left side of the brain". We have to decide which came first; language or the left side of the brain. It makes no sense that a chunk of the brain was designed to handle something that's not fundamental to the human physiology.
@@kosiilondu language is fundamental to the human psychology. It’s fundamental to all creatures. They or we all have a language. Even dolphins.
Ethane Hawke has some very insightful examples of creativity. I would appreciate his perspective.
WOULD Y'ALL BE INTERESTED IN TALKING? MY THOUGHT PROCESS IS REALLY WEIRD. I HAVE POEMS POP INTO MY HEAD ALL AT ONCE.
ALSO I WAS UNAWARE OF MY LEFT SIDE AT TIMES.
I HAVE A WAY OF MAKING JUMPS IN LOGIC WITH THINGS DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT.
I HAVE HAD SO MANY WEIRD EVENTS HAPPEN I WAS CALLED VOO DOO IN SCHOOL.
@@ronniewall1481 I see that now. I’ve removed my hurtful comment. I’m sorry Ronnie
"Spontaneity mixed with discipline and intelligence evolves into something you cannot plan that is more sophisticated and more interesting than something the intellectual mind can plan. When you're really being creative at your best, you've used your discipline to open up your subconscious." - Ethan Hawke
I’m wondering what is discipline here? Consistency in mastering your craft, staying focused and motivated?)
That is indeed a great quote.
Ethan Hawke is not creative or Innovative.
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response"
- Viktor Frankl
Thats ideal.....but entanglement of left hand side nerve bundle....unwinds when the Sunshine and grips up if I feel scrutinised. Not in my undoing.
Apologies
In my experience, the second or third thing that comes to mind while you are improvising is actually a more developed version of the first thing; your brain comprehends situations almost instantly but needs time to bring them to consciousness and generate a response -- or rather, I think it generates a myriad of different responses very rapidly, but takes time to figure out which one to settle with by a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
So the brain starts with one picture, flips it over to create the opposite, and then tests them against each other until it arrives at a consensus. Every activity in the mind seems to have an equal and opposite response, as though it were the sting of a harp that vibrates from one direction to the other. (Only there's an infinity of directions it could vibrate in and it has to narrow it all down.)
That would explain why we even have a subconscious and two brain hemispheres.
That's just what makes sense to me. I don't know if the neurology will ever back it up.
The block to creativity comes when the brains activity is directed towards monitoring itself. Because that creates a feedback loop that has nowhere to go but spirals. You feel this backing and forthing process in a very visceral and discomforting way.
Anxiety is the result of a block in consciousness; it is unable to turn it's attention away from itself because it can't let go of something; it doesn't want to look stupid or lose face. Something like that.
Depression is the result, I think, of a block in the unconscious, which is why it's notoriously difficult to get at and even medication doesn't always work. The myriad of possibilities the mind generates behind the scenes are unable to reach a consensus and so the conscious mind feels dilapidated and possessed by an all-consuming and indescribable helplessness; tossed about from one mood to another with no rhyme or reason as one of the forces warring inside him temporarily gains a foothold before losing it to another. The possibilities themselves are too enormous, complex, and yet low resolution to digest rationally so it takes effort to even examine them.
I don't think it would take much effort to examine what we can consider as neurological atrophy. If creativity is a skill, then it falls on people to exercise and build upon that skill. The video gives an idea of where to start such that depression would be a natural response to the unregulated amounts of hormones that come as a response to attempting creativity.
The material product can never completely capture the perfect but nebulous Ideal concept that the creator starts with. It takes courage,especially without external affirmations,to try to come closer to the Ideal with every creative endeavor. I've been laboring in obscurity for over 40 years in music composition and artwork. I've been mustering up that courage again and again,and it gets harder with time. When you're young,you see possibilities. With age,you see all the things that can go wrong.
So very true.
I feel your pain.
Ethan Hawke's reference to John Coltrane's "Favorite Things" with McCoy Tyner gives me chills!!!
Dr. Eagleman should be the default person to explain anything to do with the brain. He makes everything interesting and easy to understand
There is artistry in the way Rainn wore his glasses
I’m doing my senior project on this! This is very helpful! Thanks!
same
same
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Intelligence and imagination equals creativity
Isn't imagination already creativity?
No green=creativity
NOT TRUE ORIGINAL THOUGHT COMES FROM BEING CONNECTED TO THE UNIVERSE.
"Creativity is intelligence having fun". Read that quote somewhere
@@luamfernandez6031 No. Me simply imagining a Margot Robbie is not creative.
Hey look! It's the part of the brain that mine is missing!
@Abe Garfield I appreciate the word play
No it's there
The Creativity Police: “why, that’s an awfully creative comment you got there, son 🤨”
Out of curiosity, What makes you think you have this part missing?
HAHAHAHA
Thank you for information
"Take your eyes back" - reflect on your own self. Not wait for judgement from others. - Very risky
I’m glad to have this
Much Appreciated !!!
Watched got knowledge and subscribed
This is one of the better videos from you guys, fyi ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
That asmr crinkle on Scott's interview👌🤣
Very interesting video
0:38 - 1:25 ,2:33 - 4:51, 4:52 - 6:13, 6:33 - 7:45 , 8:10 - 8:41,9:12 - 10:10, 10:47 - 12:03
You put effort into this but why?
@@gino9094 Because those thoughts enlighten me each time, when i start to watch it
Thank you
11:25 just take a walk outside for 10 minutes and it's a guaranteed inspiration boost
I happen to love Coltrane's "Favorite Things", regardless of how cliché or pedestrian tat may be.
"Creativity is more important than knowledge "
-Albert Einstein
Creativity is built on knowledge. It cannot be more important than it.
@@sushanalone bro...if u only memorize things without understanding ; without having any creative power, that kind of knowledge is worthless.
And yes...This is a quote of Albert Einstein; not mine.
@@sushanalone Knowledge is a pattern. Creativity is the thing that produces patterns. It's pretty difficult to make new patterns without older ones as materials, but nevertheless...
@@rummanashahreen4978 but that's not the point.
read again!
@@sushanalone That's the point. Creativity has BOTH knowledge and imagination, two is bigger than one, no?
This David Eeagleman dude look and gesticulate alike that actor from spiderman
Nice video
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Many people discribe themselves as creative without actually creating anything.
Those people create chaos.
There is a difference between creativity and actually creating something
gr8 one
I am seeking a group of creative people in person
This is very interesting
I use my right side much more I wish I had more balance 🙂
I've been blessed with both sides working at full capacity but I was lacking in understanding of the dangers of imagination. The key to creativity is abstract thought. Most people only use concrete thought and have a hard time thinking outside the box of preconceived ideas and create generic versions of those ideas. The problem with abstract thought is that when thinking outside the box, you are literally outside of the physical realm and imagination and ego can be "hijacked" by supernatural entities giving birth to "genius" ideas. This can be positive or negative depending on the source of inspiration. I'm mainly speaking of the arts and the lives of those who are considered masters of their craft. Two examples would be JRR Tolkien and HP Lovecraft. The theme of Tolkeins greatest work "The Lord Of The Rings" is good triumphing over evil and love. Lovecraft on the other hand based his works on fear, paranoia and darkness. Tolkein was beloved by most and lived a fulfilling life separate from his creation. Lovecraft was a sickly man, paranoid,, xenophobic, and disease ridden who became synonymous with his creation and died prematurely. Im a musician, artist and writer and came to realize that I've created
Squirrels may not know how to go to the moon, but most humans don’t know this either. In this respect, artists and poets have far more in common with squirrels than they do with scientists and engineers.
Could we not say the same about composing a symphony or writing a best-selling novel? Even then, I wouldn't argue that scientists are closer to squirrels than they are to artists.
Damn. Can’t argue with that. I’m a squirrel.
What would qualify as, "knowing how to go to the Moon"? A person who intimately understands how one part of a Saturn V rocket works may be baffled by another. Much less the intuitive understanding it takes to, say, pilot a lunar lander, which can be compared to landing a helicopter just as power is cut to the engine.
The process is too large for any one person to understand from beginning to end even if it can be simplified and represented in abstract ways that make it seem as though someone could.
So really we're all just squirrels until we trust and cooperate.
At which point we become a super genius meta-squirrel.
Meta-squirrels, though impressive, also amplify the negative aspects of the human mind as well as the positive ones, so they're a thing to watch out for.
Clearly you've never had a squirrel after your nuts!
Most humans know how to go to the Moon, they broadly know you need to build a spaceship, suits, tools, and lots of technicalities, in other words, they can have a mental model of the algorithm "go to the Moon" . The problem for most humans tough, is that in order to go to the Moon, you need a vast amount of resources , funding, thousands of people working together. And that is so expensive that has only happened once, in 1969. But the capability to have mental models and work on them under the right circunstances is a difference between most humans and squirrels. The mental model "go to the Moon", is not very different than the one they had in ancient Egypt , "build a pyramid".
hi, my name is gabriel , i'm here bc' these days i notice that i repeat a lot things without criativity (repeat jokes , ideas and actions)to do different actions ,w it i fell so uncomfortable and so bad, lost opportunities , bad comunication, bad relasionship if my parents .... and i'm smart , this is my second language and i'm good in math ,fisics and others contents... i need change my life and i'm pursuing how solve my problem in this video , i hope that i achieve my goals.
Boredom is the mother of creativity 🎉
Unfortunately in such odds.... what about the blanks where you just have trouble getting started?
Allah gave each on of us a special skill or hobby that reflects our creativity
I can imagine Dwight rebuking Ethan Hawke in the background about jazz being all the wrong notes.
we are evolved to avoid risks. That's really new to me. So confirmation bias is to reinforce our belief that something doesn't work? What if we are stubborn and just want to do it, so the remotest evidence will push us forward to do it. In this case, confirmation bias seems to encourage risk-taking behavior. Does that make sense? I am a total layman on this topic and I want to hear from experts.
I don't think we evolved to avoid risks? Everything's a risk
Yes, we evolved to avoid risk - imagine taking a bet on a coin flip:
50% chance of winning $1500
50% chance of losing $1000
most people wouldn’t take the risk, although it would rationally be in our best interest. But yes, confirmation bias makes us reduce the perceived risk, not the actual risks, When you look around and only see the positive aspects of a decision, the perceived risks shrinks greatly.
@@liveintel929 Bullcrap. Having children is the biggest risk.
I'm waiting to see if Rainn Wilson will speak about this subject interms of the Bahá'í writings
My lady thinks I’m immature cause I question everything
She must be dumb
The fuck bro I click on this random video and Rain Wilson is in it. Awesome yo
from where are ideas pulled in from to be processed by brain? The mind has a role here, important one. Humans are aware of their awareness to create a response to that awareness.
Yourself is from your mind.
(I posted too quick) Yourself awareness is found in your Mind.
Intelligent and imagination makes up u creativity
As someone who owns cows, they definitely do theater plays for each other LOL
I love this video 🤍
Can't wait for Rainn to finish speaking even at 2.5x.
wow
What very highly intellectual speakers we have here - just an abundance of intelligence coming out of their mouths
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i think its the ability to obtain and rearrange subconscious information
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I am very creative 👌 I have knowledge creative imagination and faith
Someone please explain to me how Christopher Nolan's brain works
🧠🤯☄💥🌌
Beau Lotto looks like dirk Nowitzkis dad
2:40 Don't mind me, I'm just setting a bookmark
Creative processes always start with a question. Here's an example:
Question: What kind of bear is best?
Bro you went too far😂😂
I can tell you right now Giant Pandas aren't doing so great to become the best bear. They are classified as endangered and while we are at conservation status, American Black Bears are classified as least concerned. So technically, the best kind of bear is the American one, not the Chinese one LOL 😂
Polar
“…MICHAEL!!!”
Bless you for giving me a laugh out loud one year after you wrote this comment:)
Stuffed.
They are using their brains right now just to tell my brain how to visualize how it works.. And mine chose to create this comment
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no one:
Dwight: cReAtIvItY iS a DoT
I don't have the ability to make the same thing twice, Artist?
Someone got creative with the editing if this. What a clusterfuck.
Creativity some imagination facts 👌 and knowledge and experience and creativity intelligence
More fallacies to do with creativity in the brain. Creativity results from an embodied mind living in a social, historical, and cultural context. Vygotsky (1971) ‘Art is the social within us, and even if its action is performed by a single individual, it does not mean that its essence is individual’ (p. 249). .
I don't need creativity, I am
Determined
Worker
Intense
Good worker
Hard woker
Terrific
Don't work hard...Work SMART.
You can't work smartly without having creativity.
Hello DWIGHT, what you say is:
Sensible
Humble
Interesting
Thoughtful
;)
Determination is what I would call "devotion." It is the reverse side of creativity and never fails to produce it.
@@amanofnoreputation2164 okay dude, I was just being DWIGHT. Read the first letter of each word from my original comment. It's a quote from The Office.
Now i know whats missing in my brain
I had a mango for dessert today where did that man go
The fact of the matter ..
CREATIVE OR ORIGINAL THOUGHT COME FROM BEING CONNECT TO THE UNIVERSE.
THOUGHTS ARE PATTERNS OF ELECTRONS. WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAUSE CHANGES IN THOSE PATTERNS AND ANY ELECTRONS IN AN ENTANGLED STATE. SINCE ALL ELECTRONS WERE EMITTED IN AN ENTANGLED STATE AT THE BIG BANG. EACH THOUGHT CAUSES CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERS.
Why are so many celebs into jazz?
It's a musical genre that I cannot abide, personally.😢
🐈 cats go meow because the dog is too ruf ruf lol 😆
You can see why the political divide is there. It's just different way of seeing the world through either left or right side of the brain. Thinking that only one side of the brain sees clearly while the other is wrong, is very wrong.
If Dwight says so...
so I just have to get rid of my dyslexia
there is nothing original under the sun
About "The Light":
" "I," was created by the thought of Gods and "Their," desire to allow all mortals to know that "They," are always with them: As humankind grows and seeks absolute independence from "Them," "They," will remain by their side, guiding them and directing them, in their growth to absolute "WISDOM," the way to "Their Essence" and the Elysium Fields. As you look out beyond the now, into the heavens, "I" will be there, guiding you and helping you know that "I," be visible or invisible, "My Essence," will guide you beyond all that is sensed in your reality. So, let it be now revealed to you that both "I" and "He," in mortal being, who speaks to you through the thoughts of children are but one. " Eleusis. Let The Light within you guide you to the Elysian Fields entrance; your inner beauty is expected. Follow me, "Imagination is the way." by ELias Leousis.
The brain
It takes Both Brains... but 90% of people don't use their Right side of the Brain.
So.. Yes it Makes a Difference!
People need to start Using their Left hand to do things.
Dude. Do you think squirrels are paying attention to our "advances"? I think they probably have some of their own advances that we can't comprehend which might just be less disruptive than our human advances. I just cannot get on board with humans being special.
Also, yes. How are we saying that we are making B-corps when we also want to be "disruptive" considering how historically abysmal our entrepreneurial endeavors have been. Bruhh!... We are not more creative. We are less discerning... Excuse me. No. The best solutions benefit most. Solutions are almost all inherently biased. We actually need to undo past "solutions". Beau Lotto: cool. Let's even listen to the tone of speech here. Please. c'mon.
dwight
Dwight?!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💚
Dog went to the moon.
To go play poker with the other dogs.
Their names’ are Billy, Turner and Jimmy.
Lika
Our muscles have brains. All our organs have brains. The whole body is a brain.
You have a head. A dog also has a head.
So, YOU ARE A DOG!!
Reverse
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1.WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MEANING?
2. WOULD I BE WRONG IN SAYING THAT I KNOW I LEFT A PAIR OF MY OWN JEANS IN ANOTHER DIMENSION OR UNIVERSE / TIMELINE AFTER I WATCHED A 47 second CLiP OF A LUMITIME ATOMIC/QUANTAM LED DIGITAL CLOCK THAT ODDLY IS NOT DIGITAL AND WORKS WITH GEARS MADE IN THE 1960's
OvEr the past two years i have been seeking a simple answer about this clock that I KNOW has the ability to do what others see as mythical or imposible or just plain me being a dillusional clown, yet is dillusional actually not an illusion but... Let me stop there.
Yet... To date I am unable to find any further knowledge about this clock. At least which of I cannot discuss due to the 'others'.
Thank you again.
I will one day reunite with my jeans. If I am going crazy as others seem to believe, I stand firm on my lost jeans and the MANY MANY lost socks that seem to relocate into the void of lost items which create one of the universes greatest mysteries?
One day we will unite.
If you tie david's arms he cant speak
Please don't confuse creativity with artfulness.
Will ahaha
Dwight?? what're you doing here?
Creativity is as result of inspiration and imagination.
Traumas and tortures will damage your brain and will shorten your lifespan.
Hi, like if you are also from INDIA...
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No. Jordan Peterson would disagree.
And that basically makes it a written law.
I want to tattoo the transcripts of this video on all visible parts of my body
Smart people can't make any money. They spend their time in a tent on the sidewalk thinking, thinking, thinking. Then get high and repeat.
Thanks
Paniterate in u and improve
this was all cool but like i guess im a good photographer but this comes from a shallow mind good looking girls good looking car good looking things are very very enhanced to me while gross shit almost make me puke... im pretty good at dealing with fear but that why like if i see scary shit im like ready to destroy said shit but my point is photography is automatic while im a vet reasonable musician but their so much more to this ... this is when you get creative blocks ... everyone wants to be a rockstar but thats not why rockstars are what they are like above the money a woman they see the mass release and healing and communication involved with them saying what they really mean through music and thats the main motive like a symptom is always the influence of others but this is only in maybe the harder arts like writing and music... acting is a middle ground in my opinion and goes both ways but i feel rude when i say it but you shouldnt really have creative blocks in photography like that the one i would be wise to make money with but i dont care to be photographer but out of 1000s of possible angle i can only stand the look of a few or only the look of a few or right this is very closely connected to modeling as well
I think not everyone is creative.
Everyone is creative about something or different things...
I think everyone is, but we learn to not be. All children are some degree of creative.
step number 1: the negation of anything green from your life
WHAT IS WRONG WITH FOLK? I ASKED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT HOW MY THOUGHT PROCESS WORKS AND PEOPLE ARE JUMPING ME FOR SAYING I'M CREATIVE.
TALKING ABOUT EVERYONE THINKS THEY ARE CREATIVE SINCE THE INTERNET.
I GOT KICKED OUT OF COLLEGE ART CLASS BECAUSE MY STUFF DISTURBED PEOPLE.
Jordan peterson disagree.. not everyone is creative..
Make your own theories dont just rely on what someone else thinks.
@@Valentino016 stupidest thing i ever heard. We are talking about science, not opinion. Get a few degrees like jp and then you can talk shit like that
"Everyone's creative" Says the actor and the composer
😕
Mixing actual scientists with random celebrities does nothing to enhance this video, if anything it damages that the credibility of the overall message. Ruined the video for me