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Fred Nickols (nickols@worldnet.att.net)
Wed, 26 May 1999 21:01:22 -0400

Responding to AM deLange in LO21719 --

Ouch! My head hurts. :-)

I won't pretend that I followed every nuance or implication of At's post
regarding free energy, etc., but I think I grasped enough of it to respond
to his query about a word to use in lieu of "creative." First, a word or
two about "creative"...

"Creative" can refer to the ability to create, in which case it is quite
similar to "productive" (i.e., the ability or capacity to produce).
"Creative" also implies imagination, often a free-wheeling one. I think
At is using "creative" in the sense of capability to create or produce --
specifically, to produce change and more specifically to produce or create
change in one's self. It's very tempting to call that "learning."

Other words that came to my mind were "adaptive," "self-governing" and
"self-regulating."

I'm curious as to what others have to say and what At will have to say in
response...

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Regards,

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