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 Kappa: OK. This jet. . . . This new idea. It is a new form, but it is not just a “new form.” It is the new form in which to arrange old things,. . . a rocket and an aircraft. Can we separate them from each other? . . . I mean the form and those things?

Teacher: I’m starting to understand Beta’s insight. I would have thought that a new idea relates to some new content rather than a new form. . . I would have before, but not now.

Gamma: It is difficult to keep in mind all these nuances, but in any case, it becomes clearer. That new form is the essence of creativity.

Beta: A new form as a result and as a goal. . . . Yes, it is the essence, I agree.

Kappa: Aha! When you arrange old things in a new form, you get new content!

Beta: Wow, that resonates! Can we put it this way: You get new content by arranging old content in a new form?

Teacher: I say wow too! You guys surprise me!

Alpha: OK, how does this apply to our third question?

Kappa: Is it. ..

Alpha: That doing arts can be non-creative.

Delta: It applies very well. If you are not arranging old things in some new form while painting, or singing, or writing. ..

Alpha: New to whom?

Gamma: We talked about this already. If it is new to you, then you are creating.

Alpha: But if it is not new for others?

Beta: Bad luck. Bad for your business. So what? Our subject is creativity, not business.

Can Copying Be Creative? Alpha: All right, how can copying be creative?

Beta: Well, let’s see. ..

Delta: If you see everything in a painting, you can copy it.

Alpha: All right, you see everything! How is that creative? Do you arrange old content in a new form there?

Teacher: I think it is possible.