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New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Post by blueflow »

ziddoap wrote: post #10
hans1729 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work

Come on... An even slightly charitable reading of parents' comment would realize that they don't mean "belief" in the religious sense. It's pretty safe to assume they are asking what the previously understood and accepted academic stance on the matter was, and are asking how the findings of this paper differ in a way to make it newsworthy.

If he can't figure that out, i'd regret having asked that question because i dont feel like the other replies will be of better quality. Ignore the thread please, y'all.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Post by tiborsaas »

tomc1985 wrote: post #8
winReInstall wrote: post #2

To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

Are you calling all creatives schizophrenic? Because, uh, citation needed, and that goes against my experiences of hanging out with nothing but creatives 90% of the time. Us all being schizophrenic would be pretty revelatory if it was true. Artists may be weird, but...

It was just implied that being a prodigy and being schizophrenic might not be far off each other.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Post by hans1729 »

blueflow wrote: post #11
ziddoap wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on... An even slightly charitable reading of parents' comment would realize that they don't mean "belief" in the religious sense. It's pretty safe to assume they are asking what the previously understood and accepted academic stance on the matter was, and are asking how the findings of this paper differ in a way to make it newsworthy.

If he can't figure that out, i'd regret having asked that question because i dont feel like the other replies will be of better quality. Ignore the thread please, y'all.

I simply wasn't sure what to make of your comment. I probably shouldn't have assumed the worst in the face of ambiguity. The sentiment that science needs to be newsworthy wrt actual beliefs is omnipresent online, indicating (to me) a wrong canvas for your post.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

#14

Post by hans1729 »

ziddoap wrote: post #10
hans1729 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "news" are the findings of the paper. Not sure why beliefs should matter for the value of scientific work

Come on... An even slightly charitable reading of parents' comment would realize that they don't mean "belief" in the religious sense. It's pretty safe to assume they are asking what the previously understood and accepted academic stance on the matter was, and are asking how the findings of this paper differ in a way to make it newsworthy.

"Charitable reading" is something I should definitely lean more towards. Out of habit I usually assume the worst, maybe I should reflect on that.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

#16

Post by Jgrubb »

xattt wrote: post #6
winReInstall wrote: post #2

To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone. Is this word salad deliberate?

The tenderloin is a neighborhood in San Francisco, one of the most interesting in terms of the street citizenry.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Post by blueflow »

hans1729 wrote: post #13
blueflow wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If he can't figure that out, i'd regret having asked that question because i dont feel like the other replies will be of better quality. Ignore the thread please, y'all.

I simply wasn't sure what to make of your comment. I probably shouldn't have assumed the worst in the face of ambiguity. The sentiment that science needs to be newsworthy wrt actual beliefs is omnipresent online, indicating (to me) a wrong canvas for your post.

But Science is still belief. Because belief is orthogonal to whether its researched, well informed, guessed or made up.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

#18

Post by xattt »

Jgrubb wrote: post #16
xattt wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone. Is this word salad deliberate?

The tenderloin is a neighborhood in San Francisco, one of the most interesting in terms of the street citizenry.

Oh jeez, I thought it was a take on the OP’s mention of neurodiversity within the post.

Re: New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'

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Post by krono »

winReInstall wrote: post #2

To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family. I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics…

  > So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone
That is scary good of a description of what goes on in ADHD brains all the time.
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