?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Creative+thought+as+a+non-Darwinian+evolutionary+process&rft.creator=Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.&rft.subject=Evolution&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.description=Selection+theory+requires+multiple%2C+distinct%2C+simultaneously-actualized+states.+In+cognition%2C+each+thought+or+cognitive+state+changes+the+'selection+pressure'+against+which+the+next+is+evaluated%3B+they+are+not+simultaneously+selected+amongst.+Creative+thought+is+more+a+matter+of+honing+in+a+vague+idea+through+redescribing+successive+iterations+of+it+from+different+real+or+imagined+perspectives%3B+in+other+words%2C+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%2C+and+a+classical+formalism+such+as+selection+theory+cannot+be+used.+This+paper+argues+that+creative+thought+evolves+not+through+a+Darwinian+process%2C+but+a+process+of+context-driven+actualization+of+potential.&rft.publisher=Creative+Education+Foundation+Inc.&rft.contributor=Ward%2C+Dr.+Thomas+B.&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4647%2F1%2Fct.htm&rft.identifier=++Gabora%2C+Dr.+Liane+M.++(2005)+Creative+thought+as+a+non-Darwinian+evolutionary+process.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4647%2F