How is this a different way of <i>thinking</i>? She's talking about genies being responsible for the creative process.<p>"Can we do this differently? Can we go back to some ancient understanding about the relationship of humans and the creative mystery? Maybe not. Maybe we can't just erase 500 years of rational humanistic thought in one 18 minute speech. There are probably people in the audience who would raise legitimate scientific arguments and suspicions about the notion of basically fairies who follow people around rubbing fairy-juice on their projects... The question I kind of want to pose is, you know: Why not?"<p>Is this a giant analogy? I don't know. (Maybe my genie is on winter-break.) I don't need any non-scientific imaginary constructions to deal with the real world.