RE: Non-literal atheism?
August 18, 2014 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2014 at 8:33 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
I have no problem with the spiritual side of life informing my music and writing, and I know that it has intrinsic meaning to me. My job as an artist is to capture that meaning with a clarity that transfers it to the listener or reader.
As for us being the only source of creativity, nah. There are videos of orangutans fooling their zookeeper about their ability to lock and unlock a section of their cage. Dolphins name each other. Macaques discovered a way to separate wheat from chaff, and passed it along to younger generations. Granted that our creative faculties are surely greater (due to our excessive encephalization), other species can and do exercise creativity -- as Rhythm points out -- in interesting and sometimes astonishing ways.
As for us being the only source of creativity, nah. There are videos of orangutans fooling their zookeeper about their ability to lock and unlock a section of their cage. Dolphins name each other. Macaques discovered a way to separate wheat from chaff, and passed it along to younger generations. Granted that our creative faculties are surely greater (due to our excessive encephalization), other species can and do exercise creativity -- as Rhythm points out -- in interesting and sometimes astonishing ways.
