On Creativity, Metabolism and Experience

This writing aims to take the concept of a chain of mental events and visually and intuitively abstract them through space and time at individual, societal and population scales from the vantage point of direct visual experience. The act of doing so is simultaneously intended to function as the teaching of a process called ‘visual systems thinking’, which can be applied to any system of interest to the reader, typically for creative ideation. Although a hypothesis concerning the neuroscience of vision was formulated by the author while writing this book, such will not be the focus here. Therefore, this work does not intend to raise novel scientific claims, only novel perspectives. The ultimate goal of this writing is not only to give the reader new thinking tools they may not have realized they possessed, but also to visually and systematically dissolve cultural and geographic boundaries for the sake of generating empathy in a time when it is so desperately needed.