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Mindfulness, imagination and creativity

In: The Atlas of Social Complexity

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It is at the nexus of mindfulness, imagination, and creativity that the arts and humanities collide with the complexity science study of cognition, emotion, and consciousness. To explore this nexus, the focus of this chapter, we examine the five key issues that need to be addressed. The first is that we need to be clear what mindfulness, imagination, and creativity mean. The second is understanding the different levels or degrees of creativity. The third is the adverse impact that hyper-specialization has on these topics. The fourth is the continued restriction of creativity to a mental act, which ignores emotions, as in the case of spontaneous creativity and flow. The fifth is how creativity draws on our embodied minds and social life. We end the chapter by exploring what we see as the most promising inquiry in these areas. This chapter can be read in tandem with Chapter 32 The Unfinished Space.

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  • ., 2024. "Mindfulness, imagination and creativity," Chapters, in: The Atlas of Social Complexity, chapter 16, pages 196-206, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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