Creative Thought as a non Darwinian Evolutionary Process

✍ Scribed by LIANE GABORA

• Book ID: 102289911
• Publisher: Creative Education Foundation
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0175
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2005.tb01261.x

✦ Synopsis

Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneouslyactualized 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 on 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.