Had a Thought, or, Another Way To Talk About Creativity

The encounter with the empirical world through science and the encounter with other people through social interaction each perform the dual functio of providing me with a degree of stability and control, and challenging me with new opportunities to grow and move forward as a person, in this way: Science is a process by which I can gain direct control (or at least effective anticipation) of well-defined classes of phenomena by comprehending them under an articulated framework (either instrumental or linguistic) whose range and efficacy can always be improved, and at the same time I am constantly reminded by the peripheral phenomena I must abstract away in the formation of such a framework that a wide world full of wonders still waits beyond it, where reasons continually accumlate for me to step outside it; Social interaction places me in contact with the other in a way that reminds and reassures me that, in spite of my existential solitude, there is an equally essential aspect of myself through which I need not be alone, and through which my actions and choices can acquire meaning in spite of my contingency, and at the same time, another person is always capable of presenting me with something new and totally unexpected, challening and inviting me to grow by accepting and engaging, and to risk having my time (if nothing more) wasted by inanities, trivialities, deceptions, et cetera. Art may be thought of as a kind of practice that might participate in any or all of thse processes, and extends their possible range and diversity- which might be another way to say "involves creativity".