Dr. Robert Bilder directs the consortium for
Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, which is a team of
more than 50 investigators most centered at
the University of California in Los Angeles.
This consortium aims to understand neuropsychological
phenotypes on a genome wide scale.
Through a combination of human research, basic research, and informatic strategies.
Basically, Dr. Bilder is digging to create a fundamentally new understanding of how
to look at personality disorders and
diseases that have an effect on personality.
In this regard, Dr. Bilder also directs
and co-directs a slew of other important centers.
But of the most interest to us, Dr. Bilder
is the Director of the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
one of the most important programs
in the country involved in the study of creativity.
So with that, it's a pleasure to speak here with Dr Robert Bilder.
Thank you so much for joining us here today Dr Bilder.
You're one of the world's foremost experts on creativity.
So I have a question for you, sometimes my students will tell me.
Now, wait a minute.
Other people have solved this problem before.
So, if I think about it and figure out how to solve this problem, I'm actually
not being creative while I'm solving this problem,
because other people have already solved this problem.
What are your thoughts on that situation?
>> Well, I think until you've solved
the problem yourself you haven't exercised your brain
and made the unique connections in your
brain, that are needed to solve that problem.
So, we could distinguish between those things
that are created for the world, which
that may not be creative with respect to everything else that's been done before.
But if we think about what's been done that's unique for you, something new
for you and that has value to you, then that satisfies a criteria for creativity.
And it's important for your, your brain to
do that in order to pursue other creative problems.
>> Well, I couldn't agree more.
So I, I'm glad you made that point.