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Thanks for the Peripheral recommendation - we have loved it too.

Interested in your natural curiosity bit - I believe that feeds our desire to be creative, to solve problems and innovate.

Melanie Challenger (How to be Animal) answered my question to her thus;

What is our creative instinct?

It is the recognition that we need innovation to survive - that patterns and thoughts need to be disrupted.

This manifests in a drive for meaning and purpose, which mingles with aesthetics as well, to create the idea of beauty and achievement that push creativity forward & further ahead 

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Thanks, Bill. Glad you liked it too.

Yes, I think Melanie Challenger captures it well, and very lyrically. A wonderful book: "Human life may be a blend of biology and dreams, but these dreams are still animal dreams."

I love the paradoxes – or at least they feel like paradoxes – of brains trying to catch sight of themselves, understand the chemical mechanics of things that feel magical.

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