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Organic Creativity and the Physics Within.

A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowcre, Mea M. M.
Other Authors: Hoorn, Johan F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front cover
  • Workshop Poster
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. History
  • 3. Physical creativity
  • 3.1 Making novel combinations is the universal mechanism
  • 3.2 Creativity at different scales
  • 3.3 Psychological creativity
  • 3.4 Boundaries of creativity: From entropy to near-stability and back
  • 3.5 The number of combinatory possibilities exceeds the observable universe
  • 3.6 Within the sinusoid boundaries: Fractal emergence
  • 4. Perception as a limiter, perception as a fuser
  • 4.1 Perceptual error: Making room for creativity
  • 4.2 Epistemic considerations
  • 4.3 Language and signs
  • 5. Human creativity
  • 5.1 Playfulness
  • 6. Implications
  • 6.1 Holistic model
  • 6.2 Creativity in all, creativity for all
  • 6.3 Implications for human cognition
  • 6.4 A double consciousness: Implications for the concept of self
  • 6.5 Autonomous creativity and ethical restrictions
  • 6.5.1 The dogma of novelty
  • 6.5.2 Creativity of the crowds
  • 6.6 New ways of working
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 8. Coda: Futurist perspectives
  • References
  • Appendix 1
  • Back cover.

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