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  1. The Act of Creation

    The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. It lays out Koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativity. From describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, Koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" – a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphors. He regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison (such as analogies, metaphors, parables, allegories, jokes, identification, role-playing, acting, personification, anthropomorphism etc.), as special cases of "bisociation".

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  1. The Act of Creation

    The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. It lays out Koestler's attempt to develop an elaborate general theory of human creativity. From describing and comparing many different examples of invention and discovery, Koestler concludes that they all share a common pattern which he terms "bisociation" – a blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated matrices of thought into a new matrix of meaning by way of a process involving comparison, abstraction and categorisation, analogies and metaphors. He regards many different mental phenomena based on comparison, as special cases of "bisociation". The concept of bisociation has been adopted, generalised and formalised by cognitive linguists Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, who developed it into conceptual blending theory.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of the act of creation in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of the act of creation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of the act of creation in a Sentence

  1. Oliver Sacks:

    Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

  2. Anaïs Nin:

    The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

  3. Salman Rushdie:

    Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  4. Pablo Picasso:

    Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

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