A ROLE OF MIRROR NEURONS IN CREATVITY AND WHY
THE SOLUTON MACHINE
WORKS BY MIMICING THE BRAIN'S
NATURAL CREATIVE PROCESSES


The great question of what exactly creativity is all about is finally within the realm of possibility to answer. Let us begin by looking at a simple example of the creative process to give our discussion a clear foundation.

PART ONE: THE ARCHIMDEDES STORY and CREATIVITY


You all remember the story about Archimedes. In ancient times, he was asked by the king to find out if a goldsmith had cheated him. The king had given the goldsmith an amount of gold to make a crown, which the goldsmith did. But the king wondered if the goldsmith has taken part of the gold and made the crown with less gold. Since the crown was so irregularly shaped, you coul dn't easily measure it's volume.

It was Archimedes problem, to come up with a way of measuring the crown's volume. Try has he might, Archimedes couldn't apply Geometry to the situation. Then, one day when he was taking a bath, he noticed that the bath water level rose, as he sunk into the tub. Suddenly he said "Eureaka" and went off running naked in the streets to the palce to tell the king "I found it". He could measure the volume of the crown by seeing how much water it displaced.

That was a creative solution, and one we can picture as below 

     Crown                                             Bath water      
     Weighing       <--------   CREATIVE     <-------  Displacement   
     VOLUME PROBLEM            CONNECTION              ACTIVITY

As you can see from the diagram several things happened as this particular problem was solved

1. The problem situation has some required action implcit. In this case the required action was finding the volume. This was critical because it gave focus to the problem solving and, as we shall see later, defining the problem as an action activated a critical part of the brain.

2. The problem was solved by taking some element outside the problem, in this case the displacement of the bathwater has Archimedes entered, and applying that element to the original problem.

3. The problem was solved with a visual connection. The breakthrough was not logical or rational, it contained visualizations of the bathwater displacement as applied to the measuring the crown problem.

PART TWO : THE NECESSARY CREATIVE FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN


Now the question is what kind of a mechanism in the brain must exist to allow this type of thing, i.e. creativity, to happen? The brain must be able to do four things to allow this to happen.

A. It must have some mechanism to record visual stimuli. If not,  
   it couldn't have applied the bath water to the weighing problem.

B. It must be fooled and not be able to tell the difference between SEEING 
   something in one situation, and DOING it in another. That is "SEEING"
   the bathwater rise and "SOLVING" the crown volume must be seen
   as the same thing.  

C. It must be able to transfer information from one context to another 
   seamlessly and apply the new information to an old context.

D. Finally, It must do both of these things, i.e. making the connection, 
   totally unconsciously. It's not as though the person consciously thought
   about how to connect the Seeing event and the Doing event.


This is some remarkable capability. It allows for the blindkingly fast creative transfer of information in one context to another. Remember this is all unconscious. Archimedes didn't ask himself, "How do I apply this" his brain was fooled and be capable of making the connection.

PART THREE : THE FUNCTIONING OF MIRROR NEURONS


Both of these capabilities have been shown to exist in the "Mirror Neuron" section of the brain. To the Mirror Neurons, seeing something causes the same reaction in the brain, as if the person is doing that same thing. That capability results in everything from Empathy, to the enthusiasm we all feel watching a sporting event. But it also results in creativity and it's needed connection to seeing and doing.

One example of the way Mirror Neurons work is when we view sporting events. We are seeing the players playing a sport, but we are experiencing it as if we ourselves were doing it. The same thing happens when dancers see films of peple doing dance steps they already know how to do. The Mirror Neurons respond as if the viewer was dancing himself. 



Performing or                                               Viewing an Event 
Experiencing an             <-------  MIRROR  <--------     Externally or
Event personallly                     NEURONS               at a distance


Now all this seems very similar to the way the brain functions in creative
problem solving. With the Seeing a new situation and applying it back to
a problem.

How could we use this ability the brain has to solve problems creatively in a more organized way? How could we develop a method that would cause the brain to make these connections?

PART FOUR : THE SOLUTION MACHINE PROCESS


The Solution Machine takes you through a process EXACTLY similar to the one the brain goes through, in natural creativity. The person first thinks of a fantasy situation and then connects it to his or her problem. Duing this process the brain is seeing something and cannot tell the differences between seeingf the fantasy chacter doing something and actually doing it. In pictures 

         Needed                                              Fantasy    
         Problem    <------  TRIGGER QUESTIONS   <-------    Situation  
         Solution                                            Activity  
         Action


The triggering questions ask you to "Solve your problem the same way as the
fantasy charcter solved his" That process stimulates the brain in the same
way as the mirror Neurons stimulate the brain.

NOTE: At this point, this is a theory and testing with brain scans has
yet to be done.

When the person makes the connection between the fantasy activity and his or her problem, he is doing exactly what the mirror neurons do on their own. Making the mistake of applying one situation via a mental "mirror" to another situation.

One of the current theories is that the "Mirror Neurons" fire becuase of some type of Intentionality. It's not just seeing something, it's seeing something that represents something that the person wants to do. If that is the case, then it could be shown that in a problem solving situation, the intent is to solve a problem and when the mirror neurons recognize that the way the fantasy person solves his problem could be applied to the persons problem.

That is exactly why The Solution Machine works. It is also exactly how The Solution Machine, mimics the way the brain works and encourages the same processes via the Mirror Neuronss, within the brain.

PART FIVE : TRYING THE SOLUTION MACHINE FOR YOURSELF


Now that you have seen how natural creativity works, how the brain works
during natural creativity and how The solution machine's fantasy situation
causes things to happen ver similarly, you are ready to try it for yourself
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