论人类创造力的起源

On the Origin of Human Creativity

人类创造力的来源问题涉及人猿之别。动物只是简单地进化、适应环境,人则能够改造环境,甚至创造环境。这种创造力不能归结为偶然的灵感,而是一种有意识的自我否定,最早就是为了携带劳动工具而毅然改爬行为直立行走,导致了手脚分工以及人的整个身体形态的改变。这不是什么脑筋急转弯,而是具有时间性和前瞻性的历史活动。人由于把工具“当作”自己的肢体甚至另一个“我”,因而形成了自我意识以及天人合一的自然观,人的创造力在这一虚拟空间中凭借“有意识的自欺”而使劳动具有了语言性,从身体语言中产生了口头语言,并使语言成了追求真善美的“自由之家”。其中起关键性作用的就是语言的诗性结构、即隐喻的“自否定”结构,因此,最本源的创造力就在于语言的诗性或艺术性,它是科学语言和道德语言的根,也是克服现代人工智能的异化性的唯一途径。

The question of the source of human creativity involves the difference between apes and humans.Whereas animals simply evolved and adapted to their environment,man was capable of transforming his environment and even creating it.This creativity could not be attributed to accidental inspiration,but rather to a conscious self-negation.It is the determination of humans to change themselves from crawling to walking upright in order to carry tools of labor that first led to the division of work between hands and feet as well as a change of the entire bodily shape of man.This was not just a brainwave,but a historical activity with temporal and prospective perspectives.By“treating”the tools as his own limbs or even as another“self”,man has developed his self-consciousness and a systematic view of the unity of man and nature.In this virtual space,human creativity,by virtue of“conscious self-deception”,made labor to be linguistic,generated oral language from body language,and made language a“house of freedom”for the pursuit of truth,goodness,and beauty.The key to this is the poetic structure of language,or the structure of“selfnegation”of metaphor.Thus,the origin of creativity lies in the poetic or artistic nature of language,which is the root of scientific and moral language,and the only way to overcome the nature of alienation of modern artificial intelligence.