tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70432773878765702652024-03-26T01:55:33.493-05:00CHITRAVINA N RAVIKIRAN - In quest of the Perfect PitchPerspectives on music and other subjects from math through sports to philosophy.www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-51874972744380370002024-03-25T09:03:00.016-05:002024-03-25T13:39:22.140-05:00Selective Moral Discomforts and Outrages of Convenience against Tyagaraja <p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As someone who has been passionate from early teens about making Carnatic Music socially broad based and initiated pioneering steps for the same in my 20s, I see nothing wrong about anyone finding certain things in the past out of sync in today’s climate. I have definitely found a few things uncomfortable in the works of a few </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">non-digital creators </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of earlier times. They may have been hailed as progressive in their eras but would come through as regressive today. That said, the majority of their works are palatable for people of any background. </span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKv0uFbheRyAR-5ltP_lNZ-hNYvvp6AYRwqY5quJkMmcBBusiVla-9kN8LPLkktEMjXpwZV6ls3h4IMYaXCeJDRwFq-jzlJvCfB37NPYCJLMhFmFwvNVuFJq-7IopxPWFIrNKQEm1GbiPi9Xo-d2OdqHbvlU3YEAMBs6KOX_NqDtL_ao6VzGOSHXW80yY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="463" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKv0uFbheRyAR-5ltP_lNZ-hNYvvp6AYRwqY5quJkMmcBBusiVla-9kN8LPLkktEMjXpwZV6ls3h4IMYaXCeJDRwFq-jzlJvCfB37NPYCJLMhFmFwvNVuFJq-7IopxPWFIrNKQEm1GbiPi9Xo-d2OdqHbvlU3YEAMBs6KOX_NqDtL_ao6VzGOSHXW80yY" width="168" /></a></span></div><p></p><ol style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; text-align: left;"><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Background: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For instance, there could be some who may feel extremely uncomfortable about some segments in Shakespeare’s “Taming the Shrew”. The same holds good for various paintings or sculptures across timelines or regions. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Issue: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is deeply problematic to shower 21st century views to decry a substantial contributor from another era like Tyagaraja to come across as champions of social justice and equality. This is neither connected to “honest artistry” nor to “mature social thinking”. In fact it is the exact opposite of both to trash anyone for writing, painting or sculpting things as they saw based on human evolution up to that point in time.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Someone “intellectually” or “morally” finding something wrong with a composition need not sing that particular song. For instance, if someone finds it abhorrent that there are songs referring to Shiva demanding that a devotee feed him meat from his own son (even if the intent was to highlight the devotee), one need not sing it. What’s “progressive” about tom tomming it and inviting the whole world to pillory the composer or his entire community posthumously? </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intentional Consequences: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another problematic part is that these cards are being played to trigger even more vilification campaigns against some segments of society using selective truths of convenience as examples. A prolific, multi dimensional composer like Tyagaraja who evolved over time is being nudged to be judged by millions based on the words of attention seekers. Obviously most would never have the time nor energy to make deeper studies of him to get the larger picture. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Balanced Approach: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before forming judgements, one needs to at least study 5-10 of his other works. For instance, how many people know that the same Tyagaraja also hit out at </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brahmin Ritualism </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in songs like “<a href="http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/08/thyagaraja-kriti-yajnaadulu-raga-jaya.html?m=1">Yagnadulu</a>”, “<a href="http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/07/thyagaraja-kriti-manasu-nilpa-raga.html?m=1">Manasu nilpa</a>” and “<a href="http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2009/01/tyagaraja-kriti-teliyaleru-rama-raga.html?m=1">Teliya leru Rama</a>”? He critiques hypocrisy in songs like “<a href="http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2007/09/thyagaraja-kriti-kanugonu-raga-naayaki.html?m=1">Kanugonu sowkhyamu</a>” and stresses on the need for </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scientific approach </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even in prayers rather than blindly following templates in “<a href="http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2008/06/thyagaraja-kriti-thelisi-rama.html?m=1">Telisi rama chintana</a>”. Many of Tyagaraja’s messages would be equally applicable to other communities too and valid across generations. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real vs Pseudo Intellectualism: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any analysis or even judgements can only be accepted as truly intellectual only if backed by reasonable knowledge of another person or his works that comes through in balanced citations. The converse is equally true. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Discourses: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Media outlets which carry any narrative need to create equal space for counter arguments to be placed by the next day to enable society to make more informed judgments. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>In summation,</b> Tyagaraja was a champion reformer who unhesitatingly hit out at any community, when he saw unacceptable trends. His inspiration as a musician, composer and social critique was </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7043277387876570265/5187497274438037000?hl=en-GB#" style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purandara Dasa (1484-1564)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, revered as the Father of Carnatic Music and a stunning counter example to those promoting conspiracy theories about lack of diversity in this system. </span></span></p></li></ol>www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-80988847907024372022023-11-22T05:49:00.009-06:002024-01-02T22:30:49.729-06:00The Prime Mover of the Universe<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Note: This is not exactly a science article though it may cite science to put a few things in context in layman’s terms. I have given a few perspectives regarding this in musical form too in the Tamil composition, <a href="https://youtu.be/ntWtoHKxJH0">Karpanaiye</a><a href="https://youtu.be/ntWtoHKxJH0" target="_blank"> kadavul</a>.) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The greatest intellects of our species - and perhaps other intelligent beings across the universe - have been grappling with the puzzle of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what drives everything. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have tried to attack the problem from philosophical, scientific (or religious) perspectives. But despite making marginal headway, no one has been able to crack the code. This article attempts to throw a different spin on the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Underlying Force behind Everything in the Universe, which is now being postulated to be <a href="https://youtu.be/hx2uXS4IEoo?si=dCRmAtLbacHWfxhK" target="_blank">27 Billion years old</a> as opposed to 13.5 billion (though both numbers are only based on what little we have managed to observe so far).</span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fjSjDOojsmg6k8eJg_FL7lgkmsEG_awhb-0_LGk7vC-ZnEAeqiFe_dWrk5DqbCDw-zdr2gocY_c9N5SQcPOax5qRzhsnigSWLYwH-ml1F5QSclO2qSw0xyZW0z8V4V07o_g3tUcX9vEpIJmSgmJjheyk05cz73VE7Mzl4ArMKhXrIdksBX5CuhgrSlM/s338/IMG_5574.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="338" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fjSjDOojsmg6k8eJg_FL7lgkmsEG_awhb-0_LGk7vC-ZnEAeqiFe_dWrk5DqbCDw-zdr2gocY_c9N5SQcPOax5qRzhsnigSWLYwH-ml1F5QSclO2qSw0xyZW0z8V4V07o_g3tUcX9vEpIJmSgmJjheyk05cz73VE7Mzl4ArMKhXrIdksBX5CuhgrSlM/w349-h349/IMG_5574.jpeg" width="349" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Basic Q & A in Science and Philosophy</span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, a quick overview of a few important questions asked or addressed by Science, Philosophy and Religions so far. </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prime Mover </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the Universe attractive pull of matter such as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong Force </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- which confines quarks into protons, neutrons and other hadron particles OR a force that’s considered even more immense - the gravity that is there near space-time singularity is or black holes? </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dark Energy - perhaps </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the chief </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anti-attractive</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> force that is theorised to be propellant of the expanding universe? </span></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clearly only one of the two would be insufficient to </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anchor</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the universe. Something greater has to</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> balance both of these. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Could</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the Prime Mover </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the Universe be<i>:</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Fundamental matter like Bosons? </span></span></li><li><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Light, Space or Time? </span></span></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Fqdcdky9wR4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Higher consciousness / intelligence</span></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that is omnipotent and omniscient, as philosophers declare? </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Truth? Or Love? Both of these presume a positive force </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which is not counterbalanced by an equal negative force</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and therefore seem to be no more than wishful thinking. </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One or more of the Gods who are </span>worshipped by <span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">diverse religions? But these Gods are revered as larger than life based on attributes which are awe-inspiring to us. Yet none of these religions agree over the form, shape and characteristics of historical or mythological divinities. And Atheists declare that Gods are merely projections of our minds or scams to fool others while Agnostics are on the wall. With so much disagreement all around, there can be no decisiveness </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">except that the Prime Mover cannot be any kind of physical entity </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(though one has no right to question anyone about personal beliefs).</span></span></p></li></ul><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The quest </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">prime mover</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a physical entity, is there a phenomenon that checks every box we can (or cannot) think of? Is there an entity that: </span></span></p><ol style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is beyond every known law of science </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but is responsible for every one of them? </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is the very foundational force that gives varying degrees of energy to what </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4ju6j6aLE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">String Theorists</span></a><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> refer to as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dancing filaments</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> within quarks and empowers them to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vibrate in different frequencies </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to create particles of incredible diversity and eventually matter of infinite variety?</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fits in perfectly with philosophical or spiritual concepts and is beyond religious debates? </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even atheists cannot deny or agnostics cannot escape from?</span></p></li></ol><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond Relativity: Theory of Creativity</span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had no perfect answers (and as is my propensity in such situations, I had consigned the entire matter to the back burner) until I was hit by an accidental revelation in December 2022. The Prime Mover of Everything was </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity - </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the phenomenon </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">behind but beyond </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">form, space, time, matter, energy, force and the laws of every known science or descriptions in every religion and philosophy. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The obvious question would be “Whose Creativity?” But that is the very point here. It is not some other entity’s Creativity. It is about Creativity itself as </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the omnipresent, omnipotent entity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How I received this insight, though interesting, is probably not important here. What’s important is to appreciate that </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is both the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">source and force which designs and destroys, contains and sustains, forms or transforms </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">everything, yet </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">transcends them all. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While Einstein’s </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E = mc</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">2</span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> implies that </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">energy</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and matter are inter-transformable, we are far from fathoming the immensity and sophistication of Creativity which </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creatively</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">decides </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which of these two states would evolve or flourish in what form, quantity or quality in which part of the universe, when and for how long and accomplish what. More importantly, it </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creates whole sets of super-immense and sub-micro systems to enable all this to happen.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Undiscovered Dimension?</span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From a scientific standpoint, is this </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">universal phenomenon of Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a fundamental dimension yet to be discovered by humans?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that is far subtler and far more sophisticated than quantum mechanics and far too immense for us to even begin to comprehend it? Could Science and Mathematics as we know them, ever get to a point of explaining it?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For this to be even a remote possibility, science must first take serious cognisance of the fact that the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">phenomenon</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is not to be confused with the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">narrow usage of the term in the context of human inventiveness </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(though the latter is a micro manifestation of the former and therefore not irrelevant to the quest.)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity vs </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creation</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scholars must also not confuse the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">phenomenon of Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the act of creation</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even at the level of the entire Universe, though the term</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was definitely associated with divine </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creation</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by earlier civilisations (such as Brahma in India, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Biblical story of creation </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Genesis etc</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But at both the Cosmic and Quantum scale, though </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is required to create anything, it is</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> not limited </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to merely that. What we deem as </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">protection</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">destruction</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are as much manifestations of less Creativity as creation is. In short, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is responsible for not only </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">constant creation </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but also </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conservation </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> conversion </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of matter and energy as well as life and non-life.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ultimate Decision Maker </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is Creativity which is behind: </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. The formation, size, sustenance and destruction (transformation) of everything from subatomic particles to super galaxies and black holes. </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Transporting elements like Oxygen, Carbon, Iron and Copper from one part of the universe to another and re-assemble them as</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> life forms </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in regions like our own planet. Those attempting to </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07289-x" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">create even </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one simple synthetic living cell</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would testify to the amount of creativity that went into it. So how does one even begin to grasp the Creativity that is behind the arrival of innumerable life forms across aeons? </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. But clearly there is much more. Creativity decides everything happening </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">within</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> each one of these life forms and managing the ecosystems around them. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything that seems random but is not. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just as </span><a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/chaos-theory" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chaos Theory</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> states with respect to sensitive dynamic systems, each sensory experience of every individual creation in each moment is also not random but is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creatively </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brought to it each moment of its existence though we are a long way off from getting to the point of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deterministic chaos </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when it comes to life forms. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The greatest touch </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the greatest touch is that this Universal force of Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">manifests itself through many of the life forms</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are just beginning to appreciate the innumerable examples of creativity in the animal, bird, insect and plant kingdoms. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the subtle level, numerous complex processes that are taken for granted by us like certain types of mutations or DNA replications, responses of bacteria and viruses to evolving threats, highly coordinated responses of cells of larger beings such as ourselves to specific situations or developments, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">each of which could subtly vary from one context to another </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are really manifestations of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity. </span></span></p></li></ul><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It can be argued that microorganisms or individual cells of larger life forms are</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> not creative by themselves </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but are pre-programmed to respond in certain ways to diverse situations. But then, that would merely be a case of every species drawing upon the skills of a programmer with an infinitely superior, sophisticated </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universal Creativity vs Human Ingenuity </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Human creativity was not glorified by many early cultures in the East or in the West. But the last few centuries have focused </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">exclusively</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on human creativity with studies showing that thought is a </span><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/201902/what-actually-is-thought-and-how-is-information-physical" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">physical phenomenon</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - no more than a bunch of neurons firing together based on prior knowledge and memories. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This leads to a seemingly weird scenario (which Science may one day be able to establish): are the innumerable stars no more than the neurons in the mental fabric of the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Omniscient</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which are</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">firing at different times and transforming the universe every moment? Studies are attempting to showcase the </span><a href="https://youtu.be/ddPPWhAW6zk" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">similarities between the universe and the brain cell</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><ol style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But these are no more than observations at this stage and </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: lower-alpha; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are obvious dissimilarities between the entire universe and the brain cells which are subject to apoptotic or necrotic cell deaths.</span></p></li></ol><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the common force in all these is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which determines when which set of neurons will be triggered when and why, as well as the consequences of all this. So far, no study comes anywhere close to explaining the million subtle mechanisms </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">behind</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Creativity and its zillion manifestations</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond Space and Time </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even from a micro or human perspective, it is often impossible to:</span></p><ol style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">determine where </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creativity </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">originates from, where it resides or where it goes back to when it </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unmanifests</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> itself (as in when one forgets a creative idea).</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weigh or measure the dimensions of Creativity</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">design experiments to determine its exact position, velocity or ascertain its state - as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">matter</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wave.</span></span></p></li></ol><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is because </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neither occupies space nor is shackled by time to the best of our knowledge.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transcendental</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is perceivable through various senses like aural or visual but is beyond all of them. It manifests itself as any quality its medium (person/animal) possesses, but is - by itself - beyond attributes. It is completely independent of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">one’s race, region, religion or language. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most remarkably, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is independent of one’s </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">personal nature or one’s good or evil deeds (karma). </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> But, through its manifestation - positive or negative, benevolent or malevolent - creativity is a </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reasonable pointer </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to the nature of a being. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Degrees of Creativity </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a human level, those who populate the artistic and literary world are obviously regarded as most creative. Those like mathematicians and scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, architects, software developers, doctors, sportspersons, educators, corporate and business employers or employees, researchers and politicians possess obvious Creativity. Studies have shown the differences in brain activity between those involved in creativity as opposed to those that are not.</span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But even people whose occupations may seem to call for insubstantial imagination (such as elevator operators or those involved in mechanical processes or repetitive tasks), will need to draw upon </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at one time or another in their lives, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maybe without even realising it.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It takes a million micro creative steps to farm, hunt, be gainfully employed, study and improve oneself, raise children, offer solace, deal with friendly or hostile entities or other species and to generally get by in life. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Re-creativity </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about musicians who render </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the same piece of music many times?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A true artist is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">re-creative</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> even if he or she sings or plays the same music several times. Only that will infuse the music with </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">life.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is no different to the same species being created zillions of times at the universe. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity vs Choice </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does all this mean that every action of ours is pre-destined and there is zero role for every created being in the universe? This is where the beauty of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">comes in. Many creatures have creatively been endowed with the ability to make choices</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Choices are the crossroads of destiny in the highway of existence. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each time one meets such crossroads one can turn right or left. Though one can never turn wholly back and undo the past, there are options to turn to other roads to do better things. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is behind </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Consciousness?</span><br /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It could be argued that</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">consciousness </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a prerequisite for Creativity. Both Eastern philosophers and several Western scientists appreciate its fundamental and transcendental nature. As Erwin Schrödinger pointed out, “</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. It is absolutely fundamental and cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">consciousness is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not a force</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It is merely a state of existence. Or non-existence. Or both these opposites merged into one. One may view it as an all-seeing <i>sarva sakshi</i>. However, it will</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> amount to nothing without creativity. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It takes </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to invest consciousness with infinite power and transform it to matter and energy. In Indian philosophical terms, if Consciousness is Shiva, Creativity is Shakti. At best both may be equals as it can be argued that how can there be creativity sans consciousness. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That leads to an even more fascinating question: </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">created consciousness? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p role="presentation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Will (Sankalpa) </span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other thing to consider is: “Is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Will</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a prerequisite for Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not necessarily. Our own species illustrate this best. We have instances of people spontaneously creating things as also those who may be desperate to be inventive but unable to find the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity to do so</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This indicates that Creativity is a spontaneous force </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">independent of Will</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In summation, everything </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seems to point to Creativity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> being the Supreme </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">driving force</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the universe.</span></span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-66758688775974608922023-10-13T06:24:00.004-05:002023-10-13T06:37:43.602-05:00The Artist-Instrument Equation in Indian Music<p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.5pt; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Almost everyone who have known me well have sooner or later come to (willingly or otherwise) accept that the most endearing and enduring reality of my life is music and the most precious personal equation I share is with my instrument, the chitravina. From my earliest days, I have been fascinated by its tremendous tone, challenged by its demands and awed by the scope it offers to produce </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“microtonal shadings reminiscent of the human voice” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as a very astute critic observed once in <b>The New York Times.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> </b>I’ve<b> </b>repeatedly been asked a few questions relating to this by various members of the media and the article below was probably penned in response to an interview in Times of India a few years ago.)</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigudmEwwGaGNnmBlWbBvMMqVbd89QYV-IQ3ICfjCAgaEIhEQmuPx3oeIR7YYrDo23mtWhXFFHSiVCYfu_huH4u7IkRRVp3RtK3eoU7KH27qAp_Qrqx5SNuE-49iSwFW6l-Z0Pma8kwC_9ccR-2U-dQLMgws9cRNmB8DcakfN_RPUkNlU_Z_8bsNKcJTU8/s1115/IMG_4426.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="909" data-original-width="1115" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigudmEwwGaGNnmBlWbBvMMqVbd89QYV-IQ3ICfjCAgaEIhEQmuPx3oeIR7YYrDo23mtWhXFFHSiVCYfu_huH4u7IkRRVp3RtK3eoU7KH27qAp_Qrqx5SNuE-49iSwFW6l-Z0Pma8kwC_9ccR-2U-dQLMgws9cRNmB8DcakfN_RPUkNlU_Z_8bsNKcJTU8/w400-h326/IMG_4426.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Any artiste of worth takes exceptional care of his/her instrument. A few develop deep emotional bonds with it, which manifests itself in various dimensions. For instance, legendary vocalist-composer Harikeshanallur Muttiah Bhagavatar had twin-tanpuras in his house (named Rama & Lakshmana) that would be so well tuned that one would resonate if the other was strummed! I have seen superbly maintained tanpuras – both visually and aurally - in the residences of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, T Brinda, K V Narayanaswami. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Coming from a family where our chosen instrument is venerated like God, I had from my childhood, found it fascinating to observe or learn about the special equations iconic artistes had with their instruments. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An early inspiration was Veena maestro S Balachander, who had built a tranquil room in his lovely house where his instruments would be kept in high comfort! Balachander sir also used to take every care to ensure that his veena travelled no less luxuriously as he by booking an additional I class berth in the name “Ms Veena”. When I tried a similar move in some trains in the II class sleepers (a fiscal model appropriate for me then), a subset of ticket inspectors were more bemused than amused arguing (technically correctly of course) that an instrument could not be given berths when there were people lined up in huge waiting lists! Undaunted, my father-guru Chitravina Narasimhan (who travelled with me everywhere till I was 18) would offer to sleep on the floor of the train, which I could of course never let happen on 99 out of 100 cases! These days, on the rare occasions that I take the train, I squeeze myself alongside my instrument in the same AC berth, more to </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">its</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> discomfort! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another great who was literally close to his instrument was Karaikkudi Sambashiva Iyer, who was reputed to practice till he literally collapsed right </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">under</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the veena for his power naps!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pt Ravi Shankar was another model in instrument care too – it was not beyond him to book an extra First Class Airline ticket for his sitar. If this was not possible, he would have an instrument maker/repairer tour with him even internationally for months. Great mrdangists like Palghat Mani Iyer and Pazhani Subramaniam Pillai used to host mrdangam makers in their house for weeks on occasions to set their instruments. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are counter-inspirations too. A well-known artiste had carelessly kept a veena out in the car while taking a lunch break in USA en route to a concert, only to come back and discover that all the frets were in disarray as the holding wax melted away! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been artistes who have earned a reputation of having mastered an instrument. I have always been hesitant to use or even think this term, as I have seen instances of some artistes taking it very literally and end up treating the instrument like an employee! Seriously, there is a very fine-line between a feeling of control one may have at certain points of life vs a complacence of self-presumed mastery. Even the greatest geniuses like T N Rajaratnam Pillai (Nadaswaram) or a Flute Mali used to feel humbled in the context of what their minds aspired for and what their bodies delivered.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My grandfather Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar, revered by all for his sublime brilliance, used to lament often that he had not even mastered the seven basic notes!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He was also very possessive of his instrument, not even letting his own children near it! He would carry it himself for miles for concerts in small (though culturally rich) villages, if no transport was available. Violin stalwart R K Venkatarama Shastry (grandfather of R K Shriramkumar) once told me how he used to insist on helping out for at least a part of the distance. I never got to see my grandfather but my father instilled in me the only ritual I have followed from age two, till date – prostrating before the instrument at least twice first thing every morning. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This extreme reverence may not be displayed obviously by artistes handling smaller instruments like the violin or flute - especially the latter who can almost pack their instruments in their pockets! But I have seen many of them to be attached to their instruments, sometimes visibly manifest in a bit of sandle-wood paste or vermillion applied on them. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite the heavy emotional investment and all possible professional care, instruments are prone to setbacks, especially travel-related. Though these would occur in about 1/200 trips, I used to get extremely upset with airlines for their lackadaisical approach to handling sensitive instruments (despite fragile stickers pasted on every possible side of the case). I have tried to anticipate these and learnt to quickly set the instrument right, if the damage is minor! The good news is that almost across the board, well-travelled artistes have started opting for smarter options such as fiber glass case. One can never forget that it’s the instrument that takes care of its exponents, rather than the other way round! </span></p>www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-56293939025709068492023-02-08T22:05:00.000-06:002023-02-08T22:05:02.963-06:00The C I D Mantra: Deccan Chronicle Sliding Up Series<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><br />
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www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-44715596619726472972022-06-28T13:33:00.005-05:002022-06-28T13:36:18.135-05:00MADURAI MANI IYER - As pitch-perfect in life as in music <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Madurai Mani Iyer was one of the greatest vocalists the world has produced. His music also influenced me deeply. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music//article59822314.ece" style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is an article I had written to celebrate the legend's Centenary for The Hindu...</b></a></p>www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-21042308862910988272020-09-01T12:41:00.015-05:002021-02-22T21:34:52.233-06:00Popularity vs Progress: Reality CheckPopularity is an important <i>initial </i>(certainly not the final) step in the lives of students and aspirants passionate about contributing widely and effectively. Personal success in the eyes of many can certainly enable one to make a positive impact on so many lives, if used unselfishly. Of course, numerous people have contributed substantially <i>before or even without</i> getting popular. <div><br /></div><div>But a popular person can influence and inspire numerous people even without specifically setting out to do much for others - as legends have illustrated across eras and arenas. But with serious intent, a popular person so inclined can catalyze a lot of good outcomes. </div><div><br /></div><div>Popularity can be a tool that can empower one to popularise rare things of beauty or things of rare beauty; or create a whole system of values that can raise standards all around. Take the case of sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar whose popularity not only enabled him to influence his chosen Hindustani classical but also had a positive impact on Jazz, Rock, Pop and World Music.</div><div>
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However it has been long understood by thinkers that popularity is a multi-edged sword.<br />
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<b>Organic vs Organized popularity</b><br />
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It would be ideal to work passionately without an agenda to gain popularity and yet become popular because of innate or justly earned excellence. There is nothing wrong with being flooded by fame though one needs to still take care to stay above it and not get drowned by it. However, history has shown that only 1/1000 manage this and current trends seem to take it to almost 1/10000 what with preoccupation to obsession with micro-stardom in social media measured by <i>Likes </i>or <i>Views </i>- which by themselves are not unhealthy, if one can manage to strive constantly towards one's long term goals with clear-headedness. But this is a tall ask. <br />
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But organised popularity in the Social Media context has grown to a mega-level subject where synthetic success is able to occupy the same time-space as real class, albeit for such ridiculously brief periods - <i>at times merely a few minutes</i> - until the next "Like/View" sensation ousts it from its Trending Top-spot. Students must take care to not let popularity become an addiction that defies detoxification. <br />
<br /><b>Responsibilities and risks of Popularity</b></div><div> <br />
Popularity is a <i>responsibility </i>towards oneself and others. If this is not taken seriously as such, it can result in <i>substantial under-achievement at best </i>and <i>a complete loss of direction </i>in most cases. But those who do take this responsibility seriously accomplish a lot in real terms. </div><div><br /></div><div>Music is no exception to this and the field is replete with musicians who popularised rare exquisite compositions or concepts that may otherwise have never been appreciated, had they been brought to light by people not as popular. That said, artists must take care to not cease travelling <i>inwards </i>for excellence all the time, despite the ensnaring - and enslaving - nature of popularity, if they wish to progress. They must constantly be aware of the fact that popularity is only a plateau that often prevents those perched on it from looking at peaks simply because the <i>worldview down below is so enchanting.</i> One can easily stagnate or even slide down without realizing it.<br />
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Popularity is a whirlpool that can suck one deep under unless one has the skill set and the mind set to avoid its pitfalls even while being fascinated by its inexorably compelling beauty.<br />
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Popularity is like a credit card that gives one loads of perks - as long as one has the ability to be saving more than the cost of maintaining it through constantly re-inventing oneself through introspection with a positive approach.<br />
<br /><b>Popularity as a shaping tool</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>
Specifically the <i>quality </i>of popularity has the power to shape an individual's life graph. Popularity can become a trap that can bog down a person <i>intent to just maintaining status quo</i>. For a musician, popularity among general listeners forces the musician to live upto their expectations by choosing clichéd songs or ragas or phrases within them, even if the artist wants to explore greater depths or scale greater heights. So also for dancers and many others in the art world.<br />
<br />Does it mean that one has to be scared of popularity or one should consciously avoid popularity? Absolutely not. If one can remember that the popularity of all the hottest stars that lived, that are living and those yet to arrive combined is dwarfed by the enormity of the field they pursue, one will be able to accept popularity with grace and humility and yet keep striving to better oneself all the time. This awareness and approach will act as a teflon shield against the sticky negative effects of popularity.<br />
<br /><div><b>Abuse of popularity </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>All the above holds good for those who court <i>notoriety </i>as well. Abuse of popularity is perhaps more dangerous than abuse of power, which of course is <i>uncondonable</i>. While abuse of power will hurt those directly under the sphere of influence of the powerful individual, abuse of popularity can have even more far reaching consequences. </div><div><br /></div><div>History as well as news teach us how <i>not only monuments but also sentiments</i> of millions can be irreparably desecrated when those enjoying political or social following mislead the public through misinformation and misrepresentations or incite them to disruption or even destruction. No less significant is the <i>billions of hours cumulatively wasted by millions of misled people</i> who end up chasing false or frivolous causes (for years at times) losing out on opportunities of personal or constructive social development.<br />
<br />To sum up, one need not shy away from popularity but one must ensure that one stays grounded, positive - <i>and honest </i>- at all times and one must guard from getting popularity drunk as much as one is cautioned from getting power drunk. </div>www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-24314038876809004652020-09-01T00:03:00.005-05:002020-09-01T00:03:59.486-05:00A complete system - Ravikiran with Sharada Ramanathan - The Hindu 12 April 2002<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe4B7iL5DGG5kV8nlNNbFsywlf5pmbmJnOXNn7T0_23FcR3QBFOWP42JnGIARTHZ1UBSkEtS73u8y7PsUbw6uWMo5L9B7bVvrFQwMrSWAPM2DHR8RlN1aeljupx-xANxBvttKXzymUyi0/s4148/Ravikiran+with+Sharada+Ramanathan_A+complete+system-The+Hindu+12+April+2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4148" data-original-width="758" height="3818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe4B7iL5DGG5kV8nlNNbFsywlf5pmbmJnOXNn7T0_23FcR3QBFOWP42JnGIARTHZ1UBSkEtS73u8y7PsUbw6uWMo5L9B7bVvrFQwMrSWAPM2DHR8RlN1aeljupx-xANxBvttKXzymUyi0/w700-h3818/Ravikiran+with+Sharada+Ramanathan_A+complete+system-The+Hindu+12+April+2002.jpg" width="700" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-29254324664758965492020-08-31T23:47:00.002-05:002020-08-31T23:47:09.659-05:00U Shrinivas Demise - A loss beyond words - Deccan Chronicle 20 Sept 2014<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is also of interest to scholars of Hindustani music, especially those familiar with the basic 10 That’s as well as Western Music Theorists and ethnomusicologists. My postulate also offers a mathematical extension to such forays since many new combinations can be tried more systematically by futuristic composers interested in venturing into this territory.</span><br />
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Carnatic Indian Classical music, renowned as much for its exciting aesthetics as for its scientific and precise approach, made tremendous strides both theoretically and practically after the 72 parent-raga (melakarta) system was postulated and developed several hundred years ago by Govinda Dikshitar, Venkatamakhin and others. Prominent classical composers including the Tyagaraja, Muttuswami Dikshitar, Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi and others embraced the system and created attractive pieces which bestowed musical immortality upon this already brilliant concept, <i>which is one of the greatest musical strides ever taken by man. </i></span><br />
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Though a couple of extensions have been proposed in recent times to the grand 72 mela system, only the 36 <i>dvi-madhyama</i> melas (using both varieties of Ma instead of Pa) by Tanjore S Kalyanaraman briefly made it to the stage since the proponent was a noted performer and composer who created pieces in each of the 36 scales. </span><br />
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Of the 5184 mela system of Prof Sambamurthy (which is really ascent of every mela with descent of every mela 72x72), 5183 are only in theory books. The only one seen in concerts is Manji (S R2 G2 M1 P <b>D2</b> N2 S - S N2 <b>D1</b> P M1 G2 R2 S) which existed in folk and classical centuries before the mathematical formula was postulated by the professor. However, both retained only 7 notes in a straight sequence. (Bhairavi is of course more popular in this category though it is technically supposed to use a zig-zag SGRGM. In practice, it also uses straight phrases like NSRGM, RGM etc.)</span><br />
<span><br /><b>188 sampoorna bhashanga ragas </b></span><br />
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A bhashanga raga is one that uses notes not native to the scale. Since foreign notes is an automatic disqualification for a raga to be considered a parent raga (mela) like the 72, I have not used the term mela for what I proposed on 3 Sept, 2013 (as per my notes). I merely called them <b><i>sampoorna bhashanga ragas.</i></b></span><br />
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This is a system of 188 ragas which use one or a maximum of two foreign notes in ascent or descent (Arohana/Avarohana) or in both. In some ways, this merely extends the <i>vivadi </i>concept already seen in 40 ragas out of the 72 mela system. In a manner of speaking, these 40 are also <i>bhashanga </i>since they use 2 varieties of R/G/D/N but vocalise it as a sharp 2nd/6th (Ri/Da) or as a double flat of the 3rd/7th (Ga and Ni). Again the 72 have only 7 notes. </span><br />
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The <b><i>sampoorna bhashanga raga </i></b>system introduces foreign notes to these 72 which means that it will have 8 or 9 notes.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000;">To understand and codify it easily, let us divide the notes into two tetra chords SRGM and PDNS. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">A maximum of one foreign note is introduced in each tetra chord. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">This means that a raga can have one foreign note in either SRGM or PDNS or in both SRGM and PDNS, allowing it a maximum of two foreign notes in all.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">Anything more than one foreign note per tetra chord will make it even more boring and weird!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">The foreign note can occur in either ascent (arohanam) or descent (avarohanam) or both. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">The 188 ragas I have proposed do not have any zig-zag (vakra) phrases like say, Bhairavi - which uses SGRGM. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;">This is not intended so much to extend Carnatic frontiers, which I firmly believe has tremendous beauty and scope as is. </span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">(a) One foreign note in SRGM with PDNS having usual 6 varieties = 14x6 = 84. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">(b) One foreign note in PDNS with SRGM having 6 varieties each with M1 and M2 = 12x4 = 48</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">To reiterate, most of these are no more than melodic formulas. They will not fit in with core Carnatic aesthetics. Of these, probably a handful <i>could</i> be interesting in Carnatic-Hindustani jugalbandhis since the latter system is much more liberal about foreign notes (perhaps not surprising since it was deeply impacted by foreign (Persian) concepts for several centuries since the 1300s). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span>It would also be appropriate to clarify that the 188 <i>sampoorna bhashanga raga</i> system is in no way related to my concept of <i>melharmony</i> whose primary spirit is to project melodic-harmonic systems' existing and established values and aesthetics rather than extending them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>PS: I thank Mr Ram Athreya for pointing out a calculation redundancy in my original list. </i></span></span></div>
www.ravikiranmusic.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104161811400983496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7043277387876570265.post-10540608363738958722015-07-14T01:08:00.002-05:002015-07-16T10:13:56.466-05:00One more formula for Squares of IntegersEven though I have left formal math behind several years ago (though somewhat later than <i>it </i>had left <i>me </i>behind!), I have always had a fascination for numbers, some of which has been applied in original musical concepts I have popularised over the years including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ipaC4NYYw">Seamless Korvais.</a><br />
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This topic is completely off the music charts as it attempts to chart a different course in pure math in a fairly populated area - <b><i>Squaring numbers</i></b>. Doubtless there are several time-tested and elegant approaches to this including the most well known algebraic formula of (a+b)^2 and others based on pattern recognition. I found another approach staring me in the face this afternoon, literally in my half-sleep state. <br />
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I roused myself to action and tested the concept. It<i> </i>seems to<i> hold good from negative infinity to positive infinity </i>and I decided to not get too greedy and ask for more but share it with heads wiser than mine in the field. So here goes (in fairly simplistic, rather than formal terms)...<br />
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It can be tried out for any number. <br />
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<li><b>Algebraic formula vs RK formula:</b> While the algebraic formula is very elegant, my approach - <i>which could be viewed as its (distant) cousin</i> - may prove easier in the case of certain numbers. </li>
<li><b>Other short-cuts vs the RK formula: </b>Most of these are based on simple though multi-layered operations on number patterns. But they need different approaches for different numbers which means one needs to remember different short-cuts based on the final digit and/or the number of digits of the original number. </li>
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<b>RK method advantage</b><br />
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<li>Eliminates one whole level of multiplication</li>
<li>Introduces the <i><b>underscore </b></i>_ symbol which can find use across the math world. </li>
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I look forward to critical feedback from experts and enthusiasts!<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Several thousand feel the same way, whether they voice it or not. Teams scoring about 200 runs in the last 20 overs have become as unexciting as it used to be when they scored about half the runs in the same space. SA scored about 222 in just 15 overs in the latest against WI with De Villiers raking up 60 plus in the last 14 balls he faced, almost obliterating memories of Chris Gayle’s 215 just a match before. Ironically, this was 8 shy of their booty a few weeks before against the same team in Jo'berg in the last 15 overs, where AB's strike rate was 333 plus as opposed to a mere 245 in this match. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Thus, changing pitches in favour of bowlers, reducing bat sizes etc may be only partial solutions. A far simpler and elegant one is staring at us in the face. Just as Batting Power Play has been introduced, why not a Bowling Clever Play phase of 8-10 overs, preferably over 2 segments? This will not only give bowlers a fair chance but also test batsmen’s skills, something that both T20 and ODIs have omitted to do almost 100%. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> [People from diverse fields (including social-scientists, psychologists, government and corporate leaders, who read my post on "Positive Inertia" gave me a very positive feedback on it, motivating me to think further on the subject. I have shared just highlights here...]</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;"><b>Isaac
Newton</b> used '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;">Inertia’
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technical term and his law can roughly be paraphrased as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;">–
<i>“bodies tend to retain a given state of stillness or movement, unless an
external force is applied”. </i></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;"><b>Albert Einstein </b>had to redefine the concept of inertia in terms of geodesic deviation<b> </b></span><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;">to postulate his General Theory of Relativity. But this article doesn't deal with either of these gentlemens' concepts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">Instead, it focuses on the <i>colloquial </i>(esp. philosophical) employment of the term and <i>creates its own set of laws!</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">The colloquial inertia doesn't necessarily collide with its scientific namesake, since both deal with "how bodies (living or non-living!) tend to resist change in speed or direction". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">Colloquially, inertia is</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"> cited more as a mental - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">usually negative - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">henomenon to explain</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"> a person’s recalcitrant, indifferent and non-proactive behaviour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">But closer examination reveals that: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(i) inertia is - by itself - neutral & </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -36.47999954223633px;">(ii) a number of people also function (or can be trained to function) with </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -36.47999954223633px;"><a href="http://ravikiranmusic.blogspot.com/2012/07/introduction-to-positive-inertia.html"><span style="color: #ffd966;">Positive Inertia</span></a> (PI). </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;">In a collective context, whole groups can tend to have Positive or Negative Inertia, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;">based on influential individual's within that group, the organization's leadership skills and other factors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;">Organizational leadership is about: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">(a) Identifying the general trends within a group, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(b) the individuals who influence it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(c) building and tapping PI jointly and severally among all bodies within a group and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(d) increasing the <b>Total Positive Inertia (TPI)</b> within each group, thereby within the whole organisation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;">This article suggests methods to measure and track </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;">Total Positive Inertia (TPI).</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: -0.38in;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.38in;">Individual Inertia (II) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">of an employee (per day) = Average number of Actual Productive Hours </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">(APH) - Average number of Theoretical Work Hours (TWH) that one is contracted to work per day </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"> (calculated using standard man-hours it takes to complete a given job/project for an individual/group). </i><br />
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<u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Example 1</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: 0in;">: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">If A, who is contracted to work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week puts in 30 actual hours a week, his Individual Inertia is = (30-40 )/5 = (-10/5), which is a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-indent: 0in;"> Negative Inertia </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">of -2. </span></div>
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any group can be divided into people with PI or NI. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cumulative Positive Inertia (CPI) = Sum
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cumulative Negative Inertia (CNI)
= Sum of all employees with NI.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"><b>Simple </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"><b>Total Inertia</b> of an org is given by the formula: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.38in;">(</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.38in;">STI) = CPI + CNI. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Ex 1:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">If an org X with 100 employees, had 60 people with a CPI of 150 hrs and 40 with a CNI of –80 hrs, the STI of the org would be 150+(-80) = <b>70.</b> </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Ex 2:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">If org Y had 200 employees with 50 with CPI of 200 and 150 with a CNI of 300, its STI would be 200 + (-300) = <b>-100</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Ex 3:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">If org Z had 300 employees , 200 with a CPI of 400 and 100 with a CNI score of 400, STI would be 400 + (-400) = <b>0 </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;">It is obvious that: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Z with an STI = 0, is in a state of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Organizational Equilibrium (OE).</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">X with STI > 0, is enjoying a mild positive performance from its staff while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Y with an STI < 0, is burdened by an under-performing team. </span><br />
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<u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Daily Simple Average Inertia (DSAI):</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"> This is an important tool to get a macro picture of how the whole organization or groups within it are performing. DSAI is measured in Hours/Person and can be calculated from the formula: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.38in;"><b>DSAI =</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.38in;">STI / Total employees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">From the above examples, DSAI of Org X would be: 70/100 = 0.7, which means every employee is actually putting the equivalent of 0.7 hrs more than contracted for everyday. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;">It is now easy to derive Weekly, Monthly or Annual Averages as required. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, in the above examples, the Weekly Simple Average Inertia (W=SAI) of X is 0.7 x 5 = <b><i>3.5 hrs/person</i></b> (assuming 5 working days/week). Its </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Annual-SAI is roughly </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">182 </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">hrs/person (3.5 per week X 52 weeks). With its average employee working above expectation, the organization has cause for cheer, in normal circumstances. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">However, the DSAI of Y = -100/200 = - 0.5, WSAI =
(-2.5) and ASAI = </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">- 130 </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">hrs/person means the org should take necessary steps to reverse this under-performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">In reality, numerous companies may have staff working much higher or lower than the examples given. An organisation's long term results may tend to be best in a state of </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">Organizational Equilibrium (OE) </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">or</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"> mild Positive Inertia. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">Note:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"> There are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">Weighted Total Inertia (WTI) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">Weighted Average Inertia (WAI) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">formulas which take into consideration other factors such as the level of each employee
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<u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Staff Inertia Management (SIM</span></u><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;">)</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.38in;"> is an
essential part of Corporate Leadership, which has to ensure that STI never gets
to the Red Column, which is where my <b>Corporate Melharmony</b> comes in. But I'll reserve it for another post!</span></div>
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