Math, music, and literature don't solve the same problem

Literature depends on lived experience in a way math and music do not, which changes how creative fields evolve

In fact it's precisely the opposite. Mathematics and music are purest, which explains why they can be reached by the creative mind from early childhood. Literature requires the baggage of lived experience, which is where its impurity lies
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