What #®¥§≠$@ is Creativity?

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https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-135-2.3

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creativitat, abducció, cognició mixta, constrenyedors, disparadors, multiheurística.

Abstract

Creativity is The Holy Grail of the Cognitive Sciences and it is very important for researchers in the Computer Sciences and AI fields. Although all attempts to explain and replicate intelligence have so far failed, the quest remains a key part of their research. This paper takes two innovative approaches. First, we see cognitive processes as involving rule-following and as flexible, even chaotic, heuristics. This first concept uses a multi-heuristic concept without any complexes as mixed-cognition. Second, we propose abduction which, though seldom employed in this specific debate, is nonetheless a good way to explore creativity. Using both strategies, along with analysis of specific human creativity cases, we suggest a new cognitive paradigm that is both more realistic and truthful than hitherto. The idea is to offer a new way to achieve more powerful, complex artificial reasoning systems.

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Author Biographies

Alger Sans Pinillos, Università degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV)

Alger Sans Pinillos ha estat Becari Predoctoral al Dept. de Filosofia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona gràcies a l’ajut de “Formación de Profesorado Universitario” (FPU-2015), on va realitzar i va obtenir el doctorat en Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge amb una tesi sobre els aspectes prescriptius del raonament abductiu. Actualment és investigador postdoctoral de Filosofia de la Ciència (programa "Understanding the Limits of Cognition: uncertainty, abduction, creativity, naturalization of irrationality and ordinary reasoning, computational domestication of ignorant entities") al Dept. d'Humanitats-Secció de Filosofia- de la Universitat de Pavia, Itàlia

Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jordi Vallverdú és investigador ICREA Acadèmia (Institució Catalana per a la Recerca i els Estudis Avançats) i professor a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on es dedica a l'estudi de la ciència, la computació i la cognició. Autor de múltiples publicacions, les seves investigacions finançades actuals abasten la causalitat en epidemiologia (grup GEHUCT), la innovació biomèdica (TECNOCOG, Grup d'Estudis sobre Tecnologia i Cognició), aspectes filosòfics de les xarxes col·laboratives (Apphil - Recercaixa), ciència ciutadana (H2020 CSI-COP, Projecte Europeu Horizon 2020 “Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR Compliance”), i causalitat a Deep Learning.

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2021-11-29

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Sans Pinillos, A. and Vallverdú, J. . (2021) “What #®¥§≠$@ is Creativity?”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 135(2). doi: 10.28939/iam.debats-135-2.3.

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