The alternative is to shut down, to stay in our own familiar reality. That's the opposite of creativity. There's little aliveness there. In these cases, the creativity seems to come from beyond us, or from an alive space among us, or some collective field we're immersed in. I sometimes say that we can tell co-intelligence is at work when something desirable and unexpected was discovered or formed through an interaction between two or more living beings.
Creativity feeds every type of co-intelligence.