creators_name: Gabora, Liane M.
editors_name: Ascott, Roy
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2002-02-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: creativity, creative idea, insight, inspiration, inkling, distributed memory, contextuality, crosstalk, activation function, memory, content addressable, contextuality, abstraction, contextuality, collapse, conceptual network, experience, features, subliminal impressions, associative hierarchies, dance, novelty, linkage, mental set, reality
abstract: 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.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Art, Technology, and Consciousness
publisher: Intellect Press, Oxford England
pagerange: 159--164
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Gabora, Liane M.  (2000) Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/2105/1/inklings.htm