Rol,
The same statistics will show that there is much more death during those
times, will it not?
I think that John Holland will suggest that the "creativity" being
exhibited is access to sort of "grandfather dormant genes" (my phrase, not
his) where old forgotten patterns are employed - often in new combinations
- in new circumstances.
These are kept as sort of fallback positions in case of changed
environments. This might very well operate in linguistic and social
systems in similar ways.
THE question is, for me, not might we get more creativity (from our almost
dormant systems) by injecting insecurity - I think we might - but are
there ways to foster creativity that are more powerful, more attractive,
less dangerous to continued existence?
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