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Creativity is a puzzle, a paradox, some say a mystery. Artists and scientists rarely know how their original ideas come about. They mention intuition, but cannot say how it works. Most psychologists cannot tell us much about it, either. What’s more, many people assume that there will never be a scientific theory of creativity—for how could science possibly explain fundamental novelties?
This is a slightly amended version of a paper that first appeared in S. T. Nash (ed.), Proceedings of the Royal Institution,Vol. 63, Science Reviews, London, pp. 185–206. (The ideas in it are explored in more detail in Boden (1990).)
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Boden, M. (1994). Creativity and Computers. In: Dartnall, T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Creativity. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0793-0_1
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