The Brain and Inspiration

Where does our creativity come from? Does inspiration originate from inside our brains or from outside our minds?

It’s still one of those human mysteries that current science has no answer to.

If we think of the brain as hardware and of the mind as software, it helps to at least distinguish between the two, but before considering inspiration and creativity, where do thoughts actually come from?

This clip narrating a story about Nikola Tesla may not be the most accurate one but it gives some good pointers and raises some excellent questions we could ask ourselves when pursuing answers to one of these innermost traits that make us human:

Leaving the belief aspects aside for a moment, the concept that “something is feeding us information” which in turn becomes “inspiration” is intriguing.

Perhaps the notebook story in the clip is nothing else but one’s subconscious mind and if we train ourselves to retain the memory from our subconscious minds, then the connected consciousness as a whole (or universal knowledge associated with it), becomes our own individual notebook.

With technologies such as Chat-GPT now “writing” and “rewriting” texts at scale, I do wonder, where does its inspiration truly come from?

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