What attracts my attention whenever I watch a science fiction film that is referring to Aliens invading our planet, or Visitors from other planets is that man's imagination in perceiving or imagining these Aliens cannot go beyond what our God has created. All science fiction films or the persons specialized in designing these strange creatures fail to create something different or new, something that can appear really strange and make us believe that it is a real Alien. Designers always focus on our human body, either they attribute or delete some of its components or characteristics to create an Alien. This means that Creativity is a feature of our God the Creator.
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Dear Bill,
Your contribution is very rich.
I read it more than thrice just to have your ideas clear in my mind;
I think, we resort to science fiction just to prove to ourselves that we are capable of creating though our imagination is limited.
Regards
they have discribed an alien with so strange, and for me, that all impossible something.
you, me and all knew that the God created creatures so beautiful ..., so?
I find your premise very interesting, especially when you say we cannot imagine beyond what our Creator has created. In my religion, Christianity, we believe that God put his image into us to some limited degree. That is why we think we are different than the animals. This does not mean we see ourselves as God, just similar to God in some ways but limited. I think one of those attributes is creativity. The animal world follows instincts but we follow creativity. And I think you are so right in saying that our creativity is based solely on what has been created. We cannot break out of our humanness and the fact that we are creatures and not the Creator. We say God created the universe ex nihilo (Latin for ‘out of nothing’). Our creativity is always making something out of something that already exists – by extracting, manipulating and combining what is already there.
So I think we create our science fiction out of what we know. I don’t know if there are aliens. But I do not believe God has to be limited as to creating only humans. So to me there is the possibility of aliens being created elsewhere. I just don’t know. So in the genre of science fiction our concepts of aliens are limited to what we know. Some aliens are combinations of earthly creatures. And the early science fiction movies had actors in very unrealistic costumes. As time has passed, computer technology has allowed the imagination to grow and be expressed in computer-generated images that are less like humans or animals. Some recent science fiction movies have shown aliens as creatures of light without recognizable shapes, shapes of collected sand, water monsters, invisible etc. But even there we are using familiar substances. I agree that our creativity and imagination are special but limited by our being creatures and not creators.
If there are aliens, I think whether you believe in God as Creator or evolution only, they would be adapted to the environment where they appear. For life to exist it needs to have ‘organs’ or ‘body parts’ that allow it to exist and function depending on oxygen, methane, nitrogen gases. Also heat, cold, existence of water, heaviness of gravity, chemicals on a planet, all these would determine how God (or evolution) would create beings. As we explore other planets, we are finding that while they are quite different, they are made of the same elements that we see on earth. So the universe has been created with similar matter. What develops in those other environments however could be very, very different from what we experience on our planet. For now, our creativity and imagination can entertain us in a limited manner.
Yes, I think you're right. I have thought a lot about how much we have creativity or if we have it. But I always come to frustrating conclusion, that we don't have it. People are just able to collect data, analyze, classify and then but things into a new order where it creates a new whole, that didn't exist before. And then we call it creativity, although we did not create anything new, but just arranged some data. Well, it's still difficult question. There still might be a small chance that human being can create something more complex without copying it from nature. Like square or some other absolutely symmetrical figure. I think those doesn't exist in nature.. at least in not in world that is visible to eye. In microscopic world that is not visible I don't know. But I think people invented squares and triangles before they got aware of..... Well all mathematic equations seems so much of hocus-pocus to me that I'm not sure what it is. If it's creativity, or just something that any machine could also invent by data analysis.
Now about Imagining an alien. What is Imagination? ..I don't know. I suspect it's again just human brains ability to classify data and but it together. It's something when I connect things that normally don't connect... Like this: There was monkey with red hat siting in moon and pooped marshmallows town to earth. (Sorry for a bit.. not so nice example, but that what kind of my imagination usually is.) Soo.. too good Imagination might be just a error, a flaw to understand world, or understand it in weird way. Classifying things by weird, not so common, or acceptable aspects.
I think Aliens are always portrayed so ordinary, resembling something that we know, because when they would create something too different. Then no one would understand what it is. Even when there actually exist some few people who are able to create something new, most of people wouldn't understand it. It would be just an abstract art, that might be nice to see, but you won't know what is it, that the artist drew.
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Your contribution is very rich.
I read it more than thrice just to have your ideas clear in my mind;
I think, we resort to science fiction just to prove to ourselves that we are capable of creating though our imagination is limited.
Regards
they have discribed an alien with so strange, and for me, that all impossible something.
you, me and all knew that the God created creatures so beautiful ..., so?
thanks for good topic, dear ...
-Nadiyah-
So I think we create our science fiction out of what we know. I don’t know if there are aliens. But I do not believe God has to be limited as to creating only humans. So to me there is the possibility of aliens being created elsewhere. I just don’t know. So in the genre of science fiction our concepts of aliens are limited to what we know. Some aliens are combinations of earthly creatures. And the early science fiction movies had actors in very unrealistic costumes. As time has passed, computer technology has allowed the imagination to grow and be expressed in computer-generated images that are less like humans or animals. Some recent science fiction movies have shown aliens as creatures of light without recognizable shapes, shapes of collected sand, water monsters, invisible etc. But even there we are using familiar substances. I agree that our creativity and imagination are special but limited by our being creatures and not creators.
If there are aliens, I think whether you believe in God as Creator or evolution only, they would be adapted to the environment where they appear. For life to exist it needs to have ‘organs’ or ‘body parts’ that allow it to exist and function depending on oxygen, methane, nitrogen gases. Also heat, cold, existence of water, heaviness of gravity, chemicals on a planet, all these would determine how God (or evolution) would create beings. As we explore other planets, we are finding that while they are quite different, they are made of the same elements that we see on earth. So the universe has been created with similar matter. What develops in those other environments however could be very, very different from what we experience on our planet. For now, our creativity and imagination can entertain us in a limited manner.
But what if I asked you to create an alien. How would you describe the thing you are going to create?
Now about Imagining an alien. What is Imagination? ..I don't know. I suspect it's again just human brains ability to classify data and but it together. It's something when I connect things that normally don't connect... Like this: There was monkey with red hat siting in moon and pooped marshmallows town to earth. (Sorry for a bit.. not so nice example, but that what kind of my imagination usually is.) Soo.. too good Imagination might be just a error, a flaw to understand world, or understand it in weird way. Classifying things by weird, not so common, or acceptable aspects.
I think Aliens are always portrayed so ordinary, resembling something that we know, because when they would create something too different. Then no one would understand what it is. Even when there actually exist some few people who are able to create something new, most of people wouldn't understand it. It would be just an abstract art, that might be nice to see, but you won't know what is it, that the artist drew.