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Beta: OK, OK, sorry.
Teacher: I think we have gotten to a particularly interesting point. At the very moment of creation, you arrange things in your mind in a way unique to yourself. I think that is the essence of any creative process.
Kappa: Uh, you did a summary this time.
Teacher: It was too tempting . . . and exciting.
Beta: I believe this formula can be applied to activities other than art as well.
Alpha: Like passing a test.
Gamma: Why not? If you try to recreate a piece of knowledge . . . By the way, Alpha, it was you who offered the example of a test. Maybe you have something to say about that?
Teacher: Actually, I don’t see what the specific situation of a test adds to our analysis. Maybe we can talk about recalling things in general . . . What do you think?
Delta: We already have a question about seeing. Recalling seems to be in line.
Kappa: If we add the “arrangement” thing to Beta’s summary, we will have a pretty decent tool for researching different examples.
Teacher: That is perfect! Who can implement the idea?
Gamma: I can do it. Creation occurs when a creator catches a form so that he can arrange his subject in a new way. He has to be skillful enough to implement the new arrangement.
Teacher: A form? This is new!
Beta: This is the word! A new arrangement of a subject and the new form that things get organized into. Form sounds better.
Alpha: Better than what?
Beta: Arrangement.
Delta: Arrangement sounds more like the process and form sounds like the result. Both are suitable in a way.
Alpha: Saying “arrange things in a new way” is just a longer way of saying “create.”
Kappa: For me these are not simply “long” and “short” because the long one shows how it really works while the term “create” just names the process.