Potentiality States in Analogy Problem Solving

Gabora, Liane; Saab, Adam

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“…We suspect that (contrary to the article), evaluation may be as spontaneous as generation. The separation of generative activation and evaluation in NSM stems from adopting the view that creators generate as many solutions as possible and then choose the best, a view that is inconsistent with the results of studies of analogy making and artmaking (Carbert, Gabora, Schwartz, & Ranjan, 2014;Gabora & Saab, 2011;Scotney, Schwartz, Carbert, Adam Saab, & Gabora, 2020). Even when a creator generates multiple possibilities (e.g., multiple sketches for a painting) and chooses one, these seemingly distinct possibilities may be just different ways of expressing a single underlying idea that the creator is wrestling with (Gabora, 2019;Gabora & Steel, 2022), and in so doing, forging their personal creative style (Gabora, O'Connor, & Ranjan, 2012).…”

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Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

Moldoveanu

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

Moldoveanu

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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Creative Ideas for Actualizing Student Potential

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Gabora

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Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition

Gabora

Kitto

2012

Biosemiotics

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At the core of our uniquely human cognitive abilities is the capacity to see things from different perspectives, or to place them in a new context. We propose that this was made possible by two cognitive transitions. First, the large brain of Homo erectus facilitated the onset of recursive recall: the ability to string thoughts together into a stream of potentially abstract or imaginative thought. This hypothesis is supported by a set of computational models where an artificial society of agents evolved to generate more diverse and valuable cultural outputs under conditions of recursive recall. We propose that the capacity to see things in context arose much later, following the appearance of anatomically modern humans. This second transition was brought on by the onset of contextual focus: the capacity to shift between a minimally contextual analytic mode of thought, and a highly contextual associative mode of thought, conducive to combining concepts in new ways and ‗breaking out of a rut'. When contextual focus is implemented in an art-generating computer program, the resulting artworks are seen as more creative and appealing. We summarize how both transitions can be modeled using a theory of concepts which highlights the manner in which different contexts can lead to modern humans attributing very different meanings to the interpretation of one concept.What is the essence of our human-ness? We propose that what is at the core of our uniquely human cognitive abilities is the capacity to place things in context, or see things from different perspectives. This enables us to be not just creative, but to put our own spin on the inventions of others, modifying them to suit our own needs and tastes, in turn leading to new innovations that build cumulatively on previous

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Potentiality States in Analogy Problem Solving

Cited by 11 publications

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Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

Creative Ideas for Actualizing Student Potential

Concept Combination and the Origins of Complex Cognition

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