Guess that depends on what you mean by dead, Dewey.

Creation is not an act of analysis, step-by-stepcogitation. It may draw on any kind of data you like; but in the act itself it is purely the magic of the spirit. It is an "ability", not a mechanism.

You can label it whatever you want; it will never be a mechanical process. So it doesn't strike me as at all odd for it to occur whole cloth, instantaneously and in complete detail, as contrasted with step-wise analytical processes.

The shazaam! characteristic of creation is universal -- meaning everyone has the ability to one or another degree, but it is much more highly suppressed in some than in others. This suppression is one of the main purposes of grade school, as I recall!

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