Nature is the great visible engine of creativity
against which all other creative efforts are
measured.
And, creativity and nature has a curious distribution.
It's something that accumulates through time.
If we stand back and look at the universe
we see that at its earliest moments it was
very simple.
It was a plenum.
It was without characters or characteristics,
it was what in Hindu mythology is called the
"Turiya," which is described as attributeless,
and naturally if something is without attribution,
you can't say much about it.
It takes a while for it to undergo a declension
into more creative realms and these creative
realms are distinguished as domains of difference.
The precondition for creativity is, I think,
disequilibrium.
What mathematicians now call "Chaos" and through
the life of the universe, as temperatures
have fallen, more and more complex compounds,
structures, have arisen.
And though there has been, you know, many
a slipping back, in this process, over very
large spans of time we can say that creativity
is conserved.
That the universe becomes more creative and
out of that stage of creative fecundity more
creativity is manifest.
So that from that point of view, the universe
is almost what we would have to call an art-making
machine, an engine for the production of ever
more novel forms of connectedness, every more
exotic juxtapositions of disparate elements.
