Organic Creativity and the Physics Within.

• Author: Lowcre, Mea M. M.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoorn, Johan F.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2013.; Ã2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (76 pages)

A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity.

Table of Contents

Front cover -- Workshop Poster -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History -- 3. Physical creativity -- 3.1 Making novel combinations is the universal mechanism -- 3.2 Creativity at different scales -- 3.3 Psychological creativity -- 3.4 Boundaries of creativity: From entropy to near-stability and back -- 3.5 The number of combinatory possibilities exceeds the observable universe -- 3.6 Within the sinusoid boundaries: Fractal emergence -- 4. Perception as a limiter, perception as a fuser -- 4.1 Perceptual error: Making room for creativity -- 4.2 Epistemic considerations -- 4.3 Language and signs -- 5. Human creativity -- 5.1 Playfulness -- 6. Implications -- 6.1 Holistic model -- 6.2 Creativity in all, creativity for all -- 6.3 Implications for human cognition -- 6.4 A double consciousness: Implications for the concept of self -- 6.5 Autonomous creativity and ethical restrictions -- 6.5.1 The dogma of novelty -- 6.5.2 Creativity of the crowds -- 6.6 New ways of working -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Coda: Futurist perspectives -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Back cover.