TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Friday, April 15, 2005
this idea came up in a class of mine recently and I started to wonder what makes midwesterners so different / stupid.

Even for those who disagree with the idea that we're just really really complex machines, it's still any easy idea to grasp I think. But the very idea of grasping it repulsed everyone in my class besides me. It was so antithetical to everything they believed in that no one was willing to even argue it. It was a quite creepy experience because the teacher was trying to at least get someone to admit how they could see it would be possible, but no one would.

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[ recommended for discussion ]
Existentialism is A Humanism, Essay by Sarte
preface to the lyrical ballads
the trial
heidegger's what calls for thinking
When Life Almost Died (deals with the Permian mass Extinction)
elizabeth costello
the god of small things
jung's aion
foucault's pendulum
coetzee's nobel acceptance speech
faulkner's nobel acceptance speech
koestler's The Act of Creation: part one, the jester
my mother and the roomer
Tao, the Greeks, and other important things
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

endgame
the book of job
Trilobites
joseph campbell