Creativity in science
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Can thought be creative?
Scientists Talk 0 Los Alamos, New Mexico
March 20, 1984
What is knowledge? Can thought be creative? Can a conditioned brain love? Meditation is not conscious, deliberate meditation, sitting cross-legged or repeating certain phrases. That is deliberate, conscious effort to meditate, which is part of desire. Q: I have had trouble understanding what you mean by creativity. Could you dwell on that a bit? Biologically we are different: you are tall, I am short, you are a woman, I am a man, but inwardly what are we? We are a series of memories. Q: How can you have freedom without knowing Jesus Christ? Q: Is it creativity when we are able to divorce ourselves from all the knowledge that has brought us to the problem? Note: a total of 39 seconds of missing video is replaced by audio only.
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Creation comes out of meditation
Scientists Questions 0 Los Alamos, New Mexico
March 21, 1984
Q: What is meditation and how is it related to creativity? What is desire? Q: If I give complete attention to sensation, will I burn out desire? Q: What happens to one’s self-image if one changes the society? Q: How can we help watchfulness to be strong enough to see? What is concentration? What is attention? Q: If you were a director of the laboratory with responsibility for the defence of the country, how would you direct the activities of the laboratories and research? Note: an unknown amount of footage is missing in the original recording, starting at 1h 2m.