Chapter 1: Definitions
- Many see creativity as restricted to humans
- If humans can't create creative machines, then are they really creative in the first place?
- Two important questions when considering creativity: must the creator know what he or she is creating and must they appreciate his or her own creation?
- Creativity is directly related to intelligence
- Intelligence consists of the following abilities: to learn, to remember, to infer, to analogize, and to create
- Combinatorial accidents can be powerful creative tools and also produce striking originality
- "Originality must be useful"
- "Cross-wiring can produce interesting, unique, and important creative connections"
- "Vertically thinking is selective and analytical, while lateral thinking is generative and instigative"
- Cope's definition of creativity: "The initialization of connections between two or more multifaceted things, ideas, or phenomena hitherto not otherwise considered actively connected"
- "I do not feel that creativity requires intelligence, nor does it consequently require life"
- "Creativity should never be confused with arbitrary or convenient contrivances that simply take any road untried for the sake of novelty"
These constitute the notes I took on my reading today.
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