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Monday, October 1, 2007

Creation & Imitation

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When a child comes into this world, he knows nothing about the strange world he has come. He is then taught and trained all that are needed to survive in this world. He does not know the feeling of hunger. He does not even know how to express when he needs to go for nature’s call. Everything he has to learn. He is then trained how to speak, how to express his feeling, emotions even behavior he should do with anybody. Then he has to go through another step to acquire knowledge. That is to earn educational qualification. It is a lengthy process which claims at least a decade. After completion of this educational phase a child is becomes a Man, i.e. he is grown up.

He has acted under for a longtime before he has been entitled as a Man. He has imitated as he had been asked or ordered. Now whatever he would do in future, he would do depending on his previous knowledge he had earned. If he writes an essay in good sentence then it is to be believed that he had once been taught how to write sentences. If he makes a toy assembling the different things, then it is to be believed that he has the knowledge of assembling and a concept of how a toy looks. Every task he performs comprises of so many knowledge earned in his childhood. All that he does are called imitation. Now the point comes, what is called Creation? Indeed it is a complex question after discussing so long. That is called creation where there should be no copying, no old data but a new one with new appearance, new style, new thought, new features everything new. How that can be considered as new or creation where that would be developed depending on the previous knowledge. All the elements of the creation would be collected from the previous knowledge to give the creation its figure. Therefore why the creation would not be considered as imitation whereas the creation itself is standing on the previous knowledge earned by imitating. Defining a job as creation depends on the person who defines it. If the subject-matter of the job is totally unknown or new to a person he would then certainly define the job as creation. If it is known or familiar to him he would obviously entitle it as imitation. The word creation is indeed a relative term. And if you ask me what is called relative term then I would have to go to Einstein.



4 comments:

  • October 1, 2007 at 7:32 AM

    Hi. I came over from SU per your request. The only suggestion that I could give is to use paragraphs. It breaks things up and makes the reading a lot more user friendly.

    Serena (efflorescent)

  • October 3, 2007 at 6:16 AM

    Hi joy, I would not use the term 'Creation' for human beings cannot create! Only God creates! Creates means making something from nothing! It would be more appropriate if you use the term Originality and Imitation!

    I guess serena suggeststed using paragraphs to break up the post is a very good idea, each paragraph focusing on a different stage of the learning stages of a child!

  • October 5, 2007 at 2:21 AM

    Hi Joy, my first suggestion is to use the proper preposition.You should have used into instead of to in your first sentence.Second, search for synonyms.Use a better word to best emphasize your point.
    e.g.
    a)After completion of this educational phase a child is considered to be a man.
    b)After completion of this educational phase, the child becomes a man.
    Third,Eliminate unnecessary phrases.
    e.g
    a):He does not know what is called "the feeling of hunger".
    b)He does not know the feeling of hunger.

  • October 8, 2007 at 11:03 AM

    Hi Joy,

    Hope you understand all the above suggestions. They mean well for corrections in grammar and other aspects of your piece.

    In my opinion, All creatures are born with pre-defined knowledge. It is in the DNA of all beings. In the unformed human brain in foetus[unborn baby] DNA lies dormant and is only activated by external stimuli, like light, heat, cold etc. These stimuli are responsible for the unformed brain to form connections aka learning.
    The foetus is capable of learning and by the time the baby is born it is able to recognise sounds, lights and in some cases even reproduce them.
    It is this learning from the unborn state that people believe that creativity increases and more neural connections can be made.

    Anyway I think this blog is cool and u should keep working on it.

    - N

 
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