Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process
| dc.creator | Gabora, Liane | |
| dc.date | 2004-11-28 | |
| dc.date | 2005-12-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:40:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:40:16Z | |
| dc.description | Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought or cognitive state changes the 'selection pressure' against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Creative thought is more a matter of honing in a vague idea through redescribing successive iterations of it from different real or imagined perspectives; in other words, actualizing potential through exposure to different contexts. It has been proven that the mathematical description of contextual change of state introduces a non-Kolmogorovian probability distribution, and a classical formalism such as selection theory cannot be used. This paper argues that creative thought evolves not through a Darwinian process, but a process of context-driven actualization of potential. | |
| dc.description | 22 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0411057 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0411057 | |
| dc.identifier | Gabora, L. (2005). Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process. Journal of Creative Behavior, 39(4), 65-87 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/101354 | |
| dc.subject | Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems | |
| dc.subject | Neurons and Cognition | |
| dc.subject | Populations and Evolution | |
| dc.title | Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process | |
| dc.type | text |