TY - GEN ID - cogprints2105 UR - http://cogprints.org/2105/ A1 - Gabora, Liane M. Y1 - 2000/// N2 - It is perhaps not so baffling that we have the ability to develop, refine, and manifest a creative idea, once it has been conceived. But what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows? This paper looks at how the mind is structured in such a way that we can experience a glimmer of insight or inkling of artistic inspiration. PB - Intellect Press, Oxford England KW - creativity KW - creative idea KW - insight KW - inspiration KW - inkling KW - distributed memory KW - contextuality KW - crosstalk KW - activation function KW - memory KW - content addressable KW - contextuality KW - abstraction KW - contextuality KW - collapse KW - conceptual network KW - experience KW - features KW - subliminal impressions KW - associative hierarchies KW - dance KW - novelty KW - linkage KW - mental set KW - reality TI - Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings SP - 159 AV - public EP - -164 ER -