Creativity and self-organization: contributions from cognitive science and semiotics
Post-graduate in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind,
Philosophy Department, UNESP, Av. Hygino Muzzi Filho 737, Marília, SP, 17525-900,
gonzalez@marilia.unesp.br
Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, University of Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS; Post-graduation Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy Department, UNESP, Av. Hygino Muzzi Filho 737, Marília, SP, 17525-900, BRAZIL
pimb@nici.kun.nl
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What sort of contribution has
Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity? Is it
appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or
do they involve subjective elements which cannot - in principle - be
investigated from such a perspective? These two basic questions will guide this
paper which investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive reasoning. As an initial hypothesis we
characterize creativity as a self-organizing process in which abductive reasoning occurs allowing the expansion of well
structured set of beliefs. This process is considered a part of the
establishment of order parameters in the flow of information available to
self-organizing systems. In this sense, we argue that a deeper understanding of
how self-organizing processes involving abductive
reasoning may take place in dynamic systems could assist Cognitive Science in
its study of creativity.
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