Dear Ken,
I have pasted an excerpt below from the Prof Murphy inaugural lecture łThe
Big Creativity Deficit˛.
It is interesting to contemplate how much of our individual work falls
into each of these categories and then to speculate how our fellows would
view our work. We might also usefully consider how much time we spend
looking after the ecology of dissemination and how much looking after the
ecology of creation. It would be interesting to run a self-reporting
survey based on these distinctions.
Sorry to NOT be in Melbourne for the talk.
keith
>>>>>>>EXCERPT from Murphy:
"As a field grows, knowledge is stripped of imagination.
Emphasis tacitly falls on dissemination in place of creation. Knowledge
becomes
characterized incrementally by ever-larger portions of tepidness,
ineffectuality,
and inhibition. In such a context, fewer and fewer great works are
incubated.
The ecology of dissemination is different from the ecology of creation. The
larger the field grows, the larger becomes the gap in numbers between core
and
peripheral contributors. Dissemination, interpretation, and
spreading-the-word
are crucial to inquiry. Researchers need readers. Yet there is a point at
which
dissemination feeds back into the discovery core and corrodes it.
Intellectual
fields are like super-nova stars. Beyond a certain point, their growth is
the
prelude to entropy and eventual extinction. These fields burn their
creative
fuel. They die out.˛ (Murphy, 2012, p. 8 - see link below)
>>>>>>>>>
On 5/11/2013 11:17 am, "Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Prof. Murphy will follow up on the theme of his professorial inaugural
>lecture at James Cook University, The Big Creativity Deficit.
>
>Those who are interested will find the inaugural lecture and the
>accompanying slides in PDF format in the "Teaching Documents" section of
>my Academia.edu page at URL:
>
>http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
>
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