Off on another track…
And yet, a perfect example of where I’m heading in the previous post; the mind working as a powerful computer network of software programs.
After all the whining I’ve done about learning Algebra and now, Statistics, my English professor made the remark that English students seem to do well in these subjects regardless (of their stubbornness and rebellion against the non-creative aspects?).
But there may be a reason: The writer of words has a deep love and respect for words, for language, how everything fits together, the formulas for perfection in revealing a story, an idea put in the simplest yet most complex arrangement of narrative. Statistics is in fact an explication of an idea, manipulated to show any possible viewpoint of a given set of facts. It’s creativity with numbers–set in a narrative structure (often ten steps to reach a conclusion), that builds up to a story.
Seeing some of the software used in New Media production in yesterday’s class, there is an awesome amount of technical situations to work through to produce what we end up seeing as a combined audio visual “story.” Is the mind somehow trying its best to replicate the workings of itself?
I used to wonder how a creative mind can handle the technical side of writing. Maybe it’s because the technical side is the epitome of creativity.
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