TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints4647
UR  - http://cogprints.org/4647/
A1  - Gabora, Dr. Liane M.
Y1  - 2005///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Creative Education Foundation Inc.
KW  - creativity
KW  -  evolution
KW  -  selection
KW  -  universal Darwinism
KW  -  determinism
KW  -  potentiality
KW  -  context
KW  -  stream of thought
TI  - Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process
SP  - 65
AV  - public
EP  - 87
ER  -

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