@ccafe & @cosmos-members: I’m just putting this idea out there for any of you who might be interested in discussing it with me in a Cosmos Café format.
As you may know, I’m co-hosting a retreat called the “Psychedelic Incubator” in August, which is focused on enhancing one’s creative process through the use of psilocybin mushrooms. However, the retreat is really only one part of a program, which also involves group work, coaching, and guiding the participants to evolve their mindset or develop their practices of creativity in their everyday life.
I’ve been obsessed with the creative process for over 30 years, and there is always more to learn. Recently, I’ve been reading Rick Rubin’s excellent book, The Creative Act, as well as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention, as part of preparing for the Incubator. I’ve also been thinking about creativity through the lens of current conversations about “AI”—as just a couple of examples, these recent articles:
- Artificial Creativity - by Douglas Rushkoff - Rushkoff
- On being human and "creative" – by Heather Bryant
I am proposing, therefore, on a philosophical level, to explore the overlapping relationships between nature, technology, art, consciousness, and being human—or even posthuman—in constituting that which we call “creativity”; but then also to bring the exploration to a practical level, in terms of how you and I experience creativity or get creative work done in the course of our lives.
My working thesis is that all creativity—including creativity of the artificial kind—is an extension of Nature, and that to understand creativity, as well as to be “more creative” ourselves, we have to understand Nature. (How Romantic of me, right? But we could also question the construction of “Nature” as a philosophical category—and its reconstruction…)
If you would be interested in having this conversation, please reply below. I could get started as soon as this Thursday, 6/20 at 12 pm MDT.
We could use the Cosmos Café Zoom line: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Who would be in?
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