Creativity is Wild

I found Hughes' words to be most interesting this time around. As I have blogged before, I know all too well how creativity can take control. However, Hughes makes note that if that creativity is not channeled properly, it can escape. That is often why I take notes in a notebook of sorts, to ensure that these ideas do not escape me. Indeed, I have to make sure no good ideas slip away, like some wild animal. Hughes seems to believe the same as I do. However, also as Hughes has said, I often find myself slipping into a sort of an altered state when locked away in creativity, composing the various stories in my mind, but I must take care to keep my fingers typing when this occurs, as I produce work best when balanced between an altered state and concious state.

Regarding Pearce, I found his passages a little more difficult this time around...perhaps a reread would be in order, and if I come up with anything more insightful, I will blog on Thursday. What I did gather was that humans are comparable to animals in terms of intelligence, yet I hold a slightly differing opinion regarding that. I believe that animals have their own form of intelligence, and that a few opinionated humans from way back when simply deduced them to be stupid and uninspired. It's only recently that scientists have seen the true intelligence in animals; an ape can learn sign language; dolphins have been seen to have a complex social structure on par with our own; even some apes have developed their own forms of tools. It's just that so many view their advances as meaningless due to the ignorance of the aforementioned earlier humans...perhaps animals are no different from us, and, in their own way, have advanced to our own level or possibly beyond.