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This article presents a first attempt at establishing a category-theoretical model of creative processes. The model, which is applied to musical creativity, discourse theory, and cognition, suggests the relevance of the notion of “colimit” as a unifying construction in the three domains as well as the central role played by the Yoneda Lemma in the categorical formalization of creative processes.
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Andreatta, M., Ehresmann, A., Guitart, R., Mazzola, G. (2013). Towards a Categorical Theory of Creativity for Music, Discourse, and Cognition. In: Yust, J., Wild, J., Burgoyne, J.A. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39357-0_2
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