Value Maps, Drives, and Emotions

Levine, Daniel S.

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“…Steps toward mathematical modeling of interacting heuristic thinking and cognitive drive have been taken in [10] and [42]. Based on various fMRI results, we suggested in [10] that operations of heuristic mechanisms tend to activate the amygdala, a part of the brain that has changed little from other mammals to humans.…”

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“…On the other hand, creative operations of the knowledge instinct tend to activate executive regions of prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain whose complexity has grown exponentially in humans. Yet the roles of those regions are complex because connections between the amygdala and two regions of prefrontal cortex (orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate) are also implicated in higher-level emotional responses based on actual or expected consequences of stimuli or actions (see [42] for review). Hence those same connections likely play a role in the aesthetic emotional responses that accompany the intuitive elements of creativity.…”

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Drive for Creativity

Perlovsky

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2010

The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

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We advance a hypothesis that creativity has evolved with evolution of internal representations, possibly from amniotes to primates, and further in human cultural evolution. Representations separated sensing from acting and gave "internal room" for creativity. To see (or perform any sensing), creatures with internal representations had to modify these representations to fit sensor signals. Therefore the knowledge instinct, KI, the drive to fit representations to the world, had to evolve along with internal representations. Until primates, it remained simple, without language internal representations could not evolve from perceptions to abstract representations, and abstract thoughts were not possible. We consider creative vs. non-creative decision making, and compare KI with Kahneman-Tversky's heuristic thinking. We identify higher, conscious levels of KI with the drive for creativity (DC) and discuss the roles of language and music, brain mechanisms involved, and experimental directions for testing the advanced hypotheses.

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confidence: 99%