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Creativity to Prevent External Pressure and Internal Decay

June 27, 2011
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David Bohm on Creativity: Creativity is essential, not only for science but for the whole of life. If you get stuck in a mechanical, repetitious order, then it will degenerate. One of the problems is, that every civilization got stuck in a certain repetition. The creative energy gradually died away and that is why the [...]

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The Danger of Praise and Reward as Fuel for Creativity

June 14, 2010
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This post is going to be centred around several sentences. A few lines from the book Science, Order and Creativity. The moment I read those lines, I really felt this was true. By analyzing it here in this post, I hope to emphasise the very important distinctions that I think are essential. I will let [...]

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English Books in Dutch Libraries

June 3, 2010
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I love books that are non-fiction. It is not that I do not like fiction, sometimes I do, but most of the books that I read in my life were non-fiction. I used to spend many hours in our library looking for answers to questions I had, taking as much books home as I could. [...]

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Understand, Divide and Order

April 19, 2010
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This is the fourth post about the rheomode, a language experiment of David Bohm. The first post was about why I was so excited to find out about the experiment, the second post about the reason why Bohm was searching for such a language and the third post was about the introduction of the rheomode. [...]

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