Impressive people report how much insight they have found in the works of neurologist Oliver Sacks, as in this article on BrainPickings.org:[restrict]
Sontag’s experience, Sacks argues, reflects the common pattern in the natural cycle of creative evolution — we learn our own minds by finding out what we love; these models integrate into a sensibility; out of that sensibility arises the initial impulse for imitation, which, aided by the gradual acquisition of technical mastery, eventually ripens into original creation.
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