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Creative Genius:

Creative Genius:. Two Darwinian Perspectives. Introduction. Two kinds of Darwinism Primary: The origins of new biological species by means of Spontaneous variation genetic recombination mutation Struggle for existence Selective retention Natural (competition for resources)

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Creative Genius:

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  1. Creative Genius: Two Darwinian Perspectives

  2. Introduction • Two kinds of Darwinism • Primary: • The origins of new biological species by means of • Spontaneous variation • genetic recombination • mutation • Struggle for existence • Selective retention • Natural (competition for resources) • Sexual (competition for reproduction)

  3. Introduction • Two kinds of Darwinism • Secondary: • The origins of adaptive originality via • Blind variation (BV) • Selective retention (SR) • Examples of BVSR processes: • Neurodevelopment (Neural Darwinism) • Antibody formation • Human creativity  • Standard definition of a creative idea or behavior: • original (BV) • adaptive (SR)

  4. Introduction • Overview • First, the secondary perspective on creativity • Second, the primary perspective on creativity • Focus • Big-C rather than little-c creativity • Creative genius rather than everyday creativity • Reason: Creative genius • best exemplifies secondary Darwinian creativity • poses more critical issues with respect to primary Darwinism

  5. Creative genius: Secondary perspective • Problem: • What are the factors supporting creative genius that render it Darwinian? • Here concentrate on the BV part of Big-C Creativity • Five sets of factors • Cognitive processes • Individual differences • Developmental antecedents • Creative careers • Sociocultural phenomena

  6. Five sets of factors • Cognitive processes • Associative richness and remoteness • De-focused attention (reduced negative priming and latent inhibition)

  7. Five sets of factors • Individual differences • Openness to experience (versatility/interests) • Motivation (drive and persistence) • Psychoticism: • aggressive, cold, egocentric, impersonal, impulsive, antisocial, unempathetic, tough-minded, creative, • rather than • altruistic, socialized, empathetic, conventional, conformist

  8. Five sets of factors • Developmental antecedents • Birth order • Familial conflict and trauma • Divergent educational experiences • Diverse role models and mentors

  9. Five sets of factors • Creative careers • Risk taking variability (project failures) • Diversified folios (project variety) • Multitasking efforts (project crosstalk)

  10. Five sets of factors • Sociocultural phenomena • Positive: • political fragmentation • civil conflict • ideological diversity • cultural heterogeneity • Negative: • external: war • internal: anarchy

  11. Creative genius: Primary perspective • What kind of selection pressures would yield a gene pool capable of producing creative genius? • Selection possibilities: • Individual selection • Natural • Sexual • Group selection

  12. Postscript • Cultural rather than biological selection? • Within-culture reproductive competition • Cross-culture resource competition • Gene-cultural coevolution?

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