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%FORMALIZATION OF AFFECTIVE INTUITION 840320
Only people in affectively supportive contexts are
free to have and articulate genuinely creative intuitive
insights. The process of transforming such insights
into formal language and logic is a process of
rationalization. The closer one is to the creative
affective intuitive insight---the more essential is the
affectively supportive social context to the successful
rationalization of the insight. The more complete the
rationalization process---the more logical
considerations and issues of intellectual integrity become
important. The latter are essential to the communication
of the insight to intellects who do not enjoy affectively
supportive contexts. People who do enjoy affectively
supportive social contexts communicate their creative
insights in less formal ways which do not yield to
intellectual understanding, prediction and control.
These considerations are relevant to anybody
interested in promoting scientific creativity.
Scientists' professional ideals tend to function in
ways which undermine affectively supportive contexts
for most students. Those few who succeed become the
next generation of assertive scientists dedicated to the
ideals according to which they survived. Those ideals
inhibit the survival of a wider range of kinds of
creativity and inhibit the survival of a larger number
of young people with creativity. The survival of the
fittest in this case means the inhibition of the
survival of the kinds of people needed to promote
individual and community integrity both of which are
essential to long term survival of the human race.
It is essential to human survival that the scope of
scientists' ideals be broadened and that scientists
acknowledge that instrumental ideals are less important
than integrative ideals which promote personal and
communal integrity of the most comprehensive kinds.
Scientists' instrumental ideals have generated an
arms race. The same ideals can not be expected to end the
arms race. We must turn to more integrative ideals if we
are to survive.
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