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Creativity: Method or Magic? Harnad, Stevan (2007) Creativity: Method or Magic? In: H. Cohen and B. Stemmer (eds.) Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain Amsterdam: Elsevier http://cogprints.org/1627/
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Creativity:Method or Magic?
Harnad, Stevan (2007) Creativity: Method or Magic?
In: H. Cohen and B. Stemmer (eds.) Consciousness and Cognition: Fragments of Mind and Brain Amsterdam: Elsevier
http://cogprints.org/1627/
What is creativity?
A trait?
A state?
An outcome?
How? rules? training?
Lightning bolts(happy accidents?)
Objective Tests?
What’s new?
OriginalityNoveltyInnovation
Chimera
Value
Artistic creativity vs. Intellectual creativity
Practical criteriaAesthetic criteria
Algorithms and the unexpected
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés
(Chance favors the prepared mind)
Serendipity and Pasteurization
Training?
Pòlya
Uncreative?
Problem solvingDeductionInductionLearningImitationTrial-and-errorHeuristicsAbduction
13 “Theories” of creativitymethod, memory, magic, mutation
The Unconscious mindInnate structure (abduction)Analogy (imitation)Preparation (learning)ImitationIntuition, aesthetic factors
AnomaliesConstraints (Stravinsky)Serendipity (game of chance)Mental analogsHeuristic stratgeiesImprovisation (performance, interpretation)Complementarity (collaboration, cumulativity
Stravinsky
Koestler
Lakatos
Polànyi
Csikszentmihalyi
Trait or state?
Combinatory game of chance?
J. Hadamard
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés
(Chance favors the prepared mind)
Serendipity and Pasteurization
