What is the purpose of creativity?

But creativity doesn't have a purpose. Creativity is: a side-effect (both a feature, and a benefit) of: Evolution. Evolution doesn't have a purpose, either. It's just: a process that happens when you have: units in an environment, combinatorial reproduction, and: selection pressure. read more

The purpose of creativity is to bring forth new things. New sights, sounds, tastes and smells. As we humans emerged 200,000 years ago, we didn’t seem satisfied with what we were provided with here on earth but decided to combine, and thus bring forth new things. Flint + sticks became arrows. Fire + cow became Sunday roast and so on. read more

If the purpose of our creativity is philanthropy — if it is love for our fellow man, an appreciation that people struggle in their lives, and a desire to somehow lessen that struggle and increase their joy, with a little more leg room or with an iPad — it will change the world. read more

Evolutionary perspective to the topic to creativity is interesting, because it is exactly creativity that allows humans to have another form of rapid evolution, this is called culture. So there is the actual biological evolution, that has come to the conclusion of the human body and mind. read more