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Creativity: Method or Magic?

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?

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Creativity: Method or Magic?

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  1. 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/

  2. What is creativity? A trait? A state? An outcome? How? rules? training?

  3. Lightning bolts(happy accidents?)

  4. Objective Tests?

  5. What’s new? Originality Novelty Innovation Chimera

  6. Value

  7. Artistic creativity vs. Intellectual creativity Practical criteria Aesthetic criteria

  8. Algorithms and the unexpected

  9. Serendipity and Pasteurization Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés(Chance favors the prepared mind)

  10. Training? Pòlya

  11. Uncreative? Problem solving Deduction Induction Learning Imitation Trial-and-error Heuristics Abduction

  12. 13 “Theories” of creativitymethod, memory, magic, mutation Polànyi Koestler The Unconscious mind Innate structure (abduction) Analogy (imitation) Preparation (learning) Imitation Intuition, aesthetic factors Anomalies Constraints (Stravinsky) Serendipity (game of chance) Mental analogs Heuristic stratgeies Improvisation (performance, interpretation) Complementarity (collaboration, cumulativity Lakatos Stravinsky Csikszentmihalyi

  13. Trait or state?

  14. Combinatory game of chance? J. Hadamard

  15. Serendipity and Pasteurization Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés(Chance favors the prepared mind)

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