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Unraveling Creativity: Method or Magic in Consciousness and Cognition

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This exploration by Stevan Harnad examines creativity as both a method and a form of magic within the domain of consciousness and cognition. It tackles critical questions: What defines creativity? Is it a trait, a state, or an outcome? The work delves into the roles of rules, training, and serendipity in fostering creativity, examining artistic versus intellectual forms and the implications of originality and innovation. It also highlights methods of problem-solving and the interplay between conscious and unconscious processes, ultimately questioning the very nature of creative thought and its unpredictability.

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Unraveling Creativity: Method or Magic in Consciousness and Cognition

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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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