During the spring of 2004, four sessions of 24.262 were recorded especially for OpenCourseWare. Below are links to the videos, along with breakdowns of the video content.
Session 1
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Discussion of the structure and format of the course - no lectures, structured like a graduate seminar. |
00:00:00 |
| 2 |
Anecdotes regarding how ideas are transmitted and received, and how old ideas can seed new ones (i.e. creativity). |
00:10:06 |
| 3 |
Discussion of professor's "Nature of Love" trilogy: difference between bestowal and appraisal. |
00:16:53 |
| 4 |
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit: The nature of imagination, and the nature of idealization. |
00:27:44 |
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Beethoven as an example of "mad genius" - the idea of genius/creativity as a work or channel of God. Is God the only creative being in the universe? |
00:41:37 |
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Koestler's idea of creativity as a function of bisociation, yoking together different matrices. Role of the unconscious - is creativity a function of dreams? |
00:50:06 |
| 7 |
Discussion of Three Philosophical Filmmakers. |
1:11:30 |
| 8 |
How does time affect learning and the ability to teach? Discussion of Professor's teaching style. |
1:19:11 |
| 9 |
"Mute and Inglorious Miltons" - how many geniuses go undiscovered? How many never had the opportunity to bring out their genius? |
1:32:08 |
| 10 |
Course Administrativa - discussion of course times and dates, Professor's index card system. |
1:42:24 |
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Session 2
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Review of material covered during the previous week's session. Topics include the eccentric genius, divine inspiration, "bisociation", the unconscious and dreaming, etc. |
00:00 |
| 2 |
The nature of creativity as the union of the affective and the cognitive. |
11:50 |
| 3 |
Consummation, love, and same-sex marriage. |
21:35 |
| 4 |
Intuition vs. Intelligence - what is the difference? What differentiates people with intuition from those with intelligence? |
30:22 |
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Anecdote regarding Leonard Bernstein and creativity. |
48:42 |
| 6 |
Jo's presentation on the week's readings: affective attachment, intuitions, inclinations, and kinesthetic sensations. |
1:00:02 |
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How does imagination relate to survival in terms of evolution? |
1:12:38 |
| 8 |
Organic thinkers and creativity - musicians, composers, etc. |
1:24:26 |
| 9 |
Discussion of the distinction between different types of creativity - logical, empirical, moral, practical, and others. |
1:35:43 |
| 10 |
Imagination and imaging - does imagination conjure up an actual image? |
1:55:40 |
| 11 |
Imagination and the imaginary. |
1:58:42 |
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Session 3
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Creativity and the nature of the universe / religion. What was the nature of the creativity of the creation? |
00:1:03 |
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The phenomenon of the "robber baron" - people who amassed enormous fortunes and then bestowed the money upon foundations, relatives, etc. |
00:5:30 |
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The difference between intuition and instinct - Bergson and the theory of creativity. Creativity as a search for perfection? Metaphysics of Plato vs. imperfect love. |
00:16:02 |
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Having a "good" life as a creative act. Nietzsche's idea of the Superman (the artist). |
00:24:33 |
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Is learning a creative process? Can learning science / engineering be a creative process? |
00:37:30 |
| 6 |
Minsky's opinions on the "emotion machine" - can people learn about their own emotions by thinking about machine emotions? |
00:56:44 |
| 7 |
Margaret Boden - what is creativity? Inventiveness of two sorts - superficial (exploratory), and inventive. |
1:04:37 |
| 8 |
What is existence in relation to the Catholic idea of "ensoulment"? What is it never to have existed? What happens when the light of consciousness goes out? |
1:17:50 |
| 9 |
Anthony's student presentation on the week's reading - summary of the reading, interpretations. |
1:24:41 |
| 10 |
Freud as a reformer in sexual politics. |
1:48:39 |
| 11 |
Imagination as a personal perception of the boundlesness of creativity. Humans are bounded by their imagination. How imagination changes the concept of the world. |
1:53:24 |
| 12 |
Discussion of Proust. |
2:08:01 |
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Session 4
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Relationship between the brain and the mind - the brain as a bodily instrument, and experience as something that isn't reducable to merely the work of the brain. |
00:2:20 |
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Ilsa Castilla's final paper presentation: How Capitalism or Economics relate to Creativity (Art). |
00:14:35 |
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Tyler's final paper presentation: Creativity in the Art Form of A Cappella Singing: The development of the art form is similar to the evolution of Rock and Roll - recording and live performance. |
1:39:05 |
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Why do we want to create computers that are like humans? Discussion of Marvin Minsky and Rosalind Picard. |
2:22:32 |
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