Hi Carlos
Theres a lot of wonderful quantitative reseaech going on in creativity research. Sternbergs Handbook of Creativty is excelent providing an overview. Creativity still remains an enigmatic phenomenon. Cognitive scientists agree now that it is a theme that involves meny issues and a systemic perspective on creativity is central. I can really recommend this book.
Btw being critical to EBD does not mean one is anti science. ;)
Theres a tendency on this list to see everything in black and white. Please read carefully what people write.
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On 05/11/2014, at 14:10, Beth Koch wrote:
> an art school and having spent some ten years teaching in them, I can say
> with some confidence that artists do not want the imagination quantified
> (perhaps thus my colleague’s visceral response). The mystique of innovation
> and artistic creativity is a powerful force—it is all that separates
> artists and designers from skills that can now be replicated by machinery
> (I note the Facebook announcement that Photoshop will now “draw” me a
> picture from any photograph.). People are fascinated by creative types, and
> to say that there may be a science that underpins creativity is plainly
> blasphemous.
Absolutely. It never ceases to amaze me how people are blinded by their taboos (to use M P Ranjan's terminology).
And these taboos are falacies:
1) The notion that all science is deterministic;
2) The notion that science cannot study creativity;
Creativity, for some people, is still a misterious flame. They want it, but they don't want to steal it, lest the wrath of the Gods falls upon them. I understand: we haven't yet managed to design an eagle-proof replacement liver.
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