CREATIVE THINKING **Part II BEST Robotics Meta Skills
Brain Streaming at 12k Dr. Jens A. Hartmann Marty Strong Michael Steiner
We begin part two of Creative Thinking, BEST Robotics accelerated Meta-Skill by looking at one of the more interesting musings on the subject of creative thinking: Herman Hesse’s — “Glasperlenspiel” The Glass Bead Game” (published in 1943). He writes:
“Our Glass Bead Game, however, transcends all individual disciplines and arts; it comprises them all and is a kind of universal language, a pure reflection of the spiritual and intellectual content of the universe.”
Jens, the reference of Herman Hesse to language and transcending all disciplines together with arts (!) gives me chills and a strong sense of Goethe but also a reminder of the strong emphasis on Creativity as a language, which was Wittgenstein’s forte. I’m also in awe of how anyone can create such a projection of Creative Thinking, which feels not like a story but more like a description of how our brain works in a sequential chain of activities. Maybe Hesse put into writing what his brain was dreaming — the Glasperlenspiel. Your thoughts?
Michael, “Hesse’s certainly exploring key elements of how the brain ignites creative thinking. In his “Pearl Games,” he provides us with a thought-provoking essay that delves deep into the nature of Creativity…