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.