--- abstract: 'It is perhaps not so baffling that we have the ability to develop, refine, and manifest a creative idea, once it has been conceived. But what sort of a system could spawn the initial seed of creativity from which an idea grows? This paper looks at how the mind is structured in such a way that we can experience a glimmer of insight or inkling of artistic inspiration.' altloc: - http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/papers/inklings/inklings.htm chapter: 5 commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Gabora given: Liane M. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-02-24 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/21/05 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Ascott given: Roy honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2105 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2105/1/inklings.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'creativity, creative idea, insight, inspiration, inkling, distributed memory, contextuality, crosstalk, activation function, memory, content addressable, contextuality, abstraction, contextuality, collapse, conceptual network, experience, features, subliminal impressions, associative hierarchies, dance, novelty, linkage, mental set, reality' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:53 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 159--164 pubdom: FALSE publication: 'Art, Technology, and Consciousness' publisher: 'Intellect Press, Oxford England' refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Aerts, D. & Gabora, L. 1999. Lecture Ten, Quantum Mind: Quantum approaches to understanding the mind. http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/Millennium/ Dewing, K. & Battye, G. 1971. Attentional deployment and non-verbal fluency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 17, 214-218. Dykes, M. & McGhie, A. 1976. A comparative study of attentional strategies in schizophrenics and highly creative normal subjects. British Journal of Psychiatry, 128, 50-56. Gabora, L. 1998. Autocatalytic closure in a cognitive system: A tentative scenario for the origin of culture. Psycholoquy, 9 (67) http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?9.67[adap-org/9901002] Gabora, L. 2000. The beer can theory of creativity. In (P. Bentley & D. Corne, Eds.) Creative Evolutionary Systems. London: Morgan Kauffman. Karmiloff-Smith, A. 1992. Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science. Boston: MIT Press. Luchins, A.S. 1942. Mechanization in problem solving. Psychological Monographs, 54, No. 248. Martindale, C. 1977. Creativity, consciousness, and cortical arousal. Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, 3, 69-87. Martindale, C. 1999. Biological bases of creativity. In (Sternberg, R. J., Ed.) Handbook of creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 137-152. Martindale, C. & Armstrong, J. 1974. The relationship of creativity to cortical activation and its operant control. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 124, pp. 311-320. Mednick, S. A. 1962. The associative basis of the creative process. Psychological Review, 69, 220-232. Mendelsohn, G. A. 1976. Associative and attentional processes in creative performance. Journal of Personality, 44, pp. 341-369. Smith, G. J. W. & Van de Meer, G. 1994. Creativity through psychosomatics. Creativity Research Journal, 7, 159-170. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:42:51 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-sci-art-intel - phil-mind succeeds: 856 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Toward a Theory of Creative Inklings type: bookchapter userid: 352 volume: ~