Chapter 2: Background
- Surprise is a necessary ingredient in creativity
- Associationism - a view that creativity stems of unconscious or subconscious associations - linking thoughts, ideas, experiences, and images
- Letter Spirit, a program used to creatively make new fonts, operates with decision waves - unifying operations that consist of "the gradual, slow-but-sure tightening up of internal consistency all across the structure under construction"
- Cope feels that focusing on details is not the important part of a creative work
- The Turing test may also be an adequate gauge of creativity
- Creativity is not an output, rather, it is a function
- Creativity is not necessarily audible - it is only perceptible when the method of creation is known
- "Most recent research in artificial intelligence and creativity tends to focus on connectionism, geneticism, and expertism"
- "Full-scale creativity consists in having a keen sense for what is interesting, following it recursively, applying it at the meta-level, and modifying it accordingly" - Hofstadter
- "I do not believe ... that all humans share a common aesthetic"
- "It is the processes, rather than their output, that best identify creativity"
- "The results of creativity should be different from the results of other processes"
- "Creativity is a process, not the result of a process"
These constitute the notes I took on my reading today.
