Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Our ability to find humor in the world to make connections between previously unconnected notions to create new ideas to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web the denser the experience of time.