Creativity and Free Will vs. Servitude

What is the opposite of creativity?  

Why is creativity the center of my universe?

My relationship as an individual with the ruling party, be it a human Rex or God, can be measured in degrees. At the low-end of the scale, I exist as a vegetable to quote Irving Singer.  I have living forces, like a vegetable.  I consume nutrients and perhaps even produce beneficial by-products.  As a vegetable I have a determined life, no free will.  At best I can continue to serve the universe in the manner in which I was created.  My nature pre-defines my abilities and my behavior.  Like a slave before his master, to quote the Rosh Hashana liturgy.   Commandments of the master are observed and imposed through force, violence.

At the high-end of the scale, I exist as a creative force.  My free will determines my future.  My creativity endows my free will.

The human senses perceive external stimuli.  At the low-end of the scale, my reflexes react to this stimulus.  Deterministic.   At the high-end of the scale, I am cognizant of the stimuli and I interpret the stimulus through choice.  My perception is condition on that choice.  If I choose, the stimulus will present a particular reality reflective of my choice.  If I don’t express my free will and behave reflexively to the stimulus, the perceived reality reflects the choice of others.

It is possible to live as a vegetable, to be reactive and express other’s will, but why would I want that type of relationship with God?  I can live under a dictator, be it a divine dictator or a human dictator, even in a democracy, but why would I want to relinquish my individuality?

As long as there is a direct correspondence, a one-to-one relationship, between thought and action, between the mind and the brain, there is no free-will.  I am a reactive being.  The first step in the expression of free will is to create a gap between the mind and the brain, the thought and the action, the stimulus and the perception.  The second step is to bridge that gap, the gap between the idea and the action, the adoption of an invention and creation of an innovation (to utilize Peter Denning’s language).

As a creative being my relationship with the ruling party becomes a partnership.  The royal decree is a stimulus to be observed, to be accepted, to commit oneself to.  These are the speech actions, they bring the idea into fruition.  God’s commandments are not an expression of His will imposed over mine; they are an opportunity for His will and mine to work together in a partnership.

The opposite of creativity is servitude.  I can live my life as a vegetable as a slave, but should I?  I don’t need to know my purpose in life, I don’t even need to have a goal.  But I do need to choose if I want to be a slave or a creative free willed being.