ABSTRACT
Is it possible for science to operate in a radically new way, in which fundamentally different ideas are considered together and new perceptions made between them? In the previous chapter it was shown that the essence of creativity lies in the ability to make such fresh perceptions and it was also hinted that communication plays a key role in such perceptions. In the case of Helen Keller, for example, her moment of insight, and the way in which it was unfolded, involved communication in a very important way. In this chapter the whole question of communication is explored in much greater detail and it is suggested that communication is an essential for the creative act as is perception through the mind. Indeed, within this context, perception and communication are inseparably related, so that creation arises as much in the flow of ideas between people as in the understanding of the individual alone.
