title: Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process
creator: Gabora, Dr. Liane M.
subject: Evolution
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Theoretical Biology
description: Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously-actualized 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 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.
publisher: Creative Education Foundation Inc.
contributor: Ward, Dr. Thomas B.
date: 2005
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/4647/1/ct.htm
identifier:   Gabora, Dr. Liane M.  (2005) Creative thought as a non-Darwinian evolutionary process.  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/4647/