The Riddle of Creativity: Philosophy's View

Abel, Günter

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9877-2_5

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“…We argue that the emergence of insight that is the result of conscious cognitive processing does not have the character of strong, radical creativity [5]. In strong creativity, the output of a creative mental event should not be deduced from a given set of antecedent elements existing previously in mind.…”

Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…The connection of creative momentum with the realm of potentiality [2] is related to the notion of creative dispositional potentialities. Abel [5] speaks about creative dispositional potentialities when exploring the nature of strong creativity, i.e. creativity that refers to the emergence of fundamentally new ideas, products, and entities.…”

Section: Strong Creativity and Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…creativity that refers to the emergence of fundamentally new ideas, products, and entities. Strong (or radical) creativity: a) should not be reduced to a set of antecedent elements and their principles and rules (which are violated and superseded in radical creativity) b) cannot be deduced logically, causally, or psychologically from such a given set of elements c) is suggested to be linked more to "luck" (in the sense of randomness) than to reason d) is suggested to be spontaneous e) is suggested to be unpredictable, and f) is suggested to be characterized by discontinuities [5] All of the aforementioned features indicate that the creative act has the hallmarks of emergence:…”

Section: Strong Creativity and Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The emergence of insight is suggested to be sudden and non-conscious [7]. Similarly, the emergence of fundamentally new ideas is connected with a spontaneous, unpredictable, and discontinuous mental event [5]. Fundamentally new ideas are not deduced logically or causally from previously known antecedent elements and given rules and categories.…”

Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue that we should differentiate between "insight for the sake of problem solving" and "thinking without a goal". Emergent phenomena are characterized by an absence of either the starting or the ending situation [5]. However, if we consider an insight that is linked to the discovery of a solution, it means that such an insight is not end-free.…”

Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2018

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The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when one's cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise. We also predict that in older age, symmetry restoration is less likely to occur as internalized mental schemes become more rigid in the elderly. Furthermore, the present study demonstrates that symmetry restoration may occur not only individually, in one's mind, but also collectively, during collaborative creative activities, e.g. during small-group brainstorming sessions or creative improvisational performances. The possibility of collective symmetry restoration interacts well with the ideas in the field of relational ontology. Relational ontology highlights an important ontological role of relations. The ontological primacy is not given to individual entities, as in traditional metaphysics, but to relational structures and transformative relational processes (interactions). When accepting this assumption, we cannot imagine the situation when the actor's mind could act absolutely independently and leave all of its relations as assumed in the compatibilist theory of free will. We argue that creative free action can be performed even in the case when the actor is entangled within their material, environmental, and social relational structures.

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Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Strong Creativity and Emergencementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications For the Philosophy Of Mind The Creative Act Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fostering the Creative Development of Computer Science Students in Programming and Interaction Design

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2013

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Psychological Study of the Environmental Factors of Personal Creativity Manifestation

Poghosyan¹,

AGHUZUMTSYAN²,

Khachatryan³

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The manifestation of a person's creativity is determined by the complex interaction of the conducive and obstructive factors of the environment. We propose a model for the study of creativity, which takes into account the conducive and obstructive factors. The purpose of the article is to study the ratio of conducive and obstructive factors to the manifestation of a person’s creativity. The characteristics of the creativity of modern managers are determined by a unique ratio of conducive and obstructive factors, according to which the impossibility of making independent decisions is an obstructive factor for them; and the freedom to express their thoughts is an conducive factor, the fear of making mistakes and the fear of criticism are obstructive factors; and the spark of new thoughts and ideas, the inspiration and enthusiasm to create new ideas are considered to be conducive factors. Such a correlation of contributing and hindering factors of personal creativity is the basis for developing a new model of studying and developing personal creativity. Thus, the creativity study model is built from the level of creativity, standards, personal qualities of creativity, the relationship between them, the factors contributing to and hindering creativity, their unique relationship.

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The Riddle of Creativity: Philosophy's View

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Creativity, Emergence of Novelty, and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Creativity, Emergence of Novelty, and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Fostering the Creative Development of Computer Science Students in Programming and Interaction Design

Psychological Study of the Environmental Factors of Personal Creativity Manifestation

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