Creativity, cognition, and knowledge : an interaction / edited by Terry Dartnall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dartnall, Terry, 1943-

Series:

Perspectives on cognitive science (Westport, Conn.)

Perspectives on cognitive science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Cognitive science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection weitten by leading figures in cognitive science includes their lively debates with Dartnall about his call for a new epistemology, an alternative to the standard representational story in cognitive science. Dartnall aims to show that new epistemology is already with us in some leading-edge models of human creativity. Such an epistemology steers a middle road between the representationism of classical cognitive science and a radical anti-representationism that denies the existence or importance of representations. Dartnall, who debates contributors at each chapter's end, believes that creativity inheres-not only in big ticket items such as plays, poems, or sonatas-but in our ability to produce cognitive content at all, so that representations are the creative products of our knowledge, rather than its passive carriers.

Contents:

Cover

CREATIVITY, COGNITION, AND KNOWLEDGE

Contents

Foreword

Preface

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

KNOWLEDGE AND REPRESENTATION

The Origins of an Epistemology

The Standard Account of Cognition in Cognitive Science

Retelling the Standard Story

Constructing Representations in the Imagination

Wittgenstein

CREATIVITY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

The Acid Test for Cognitive Science

Creativity and Combinationism

Combinationism and Representationism

Getting Something Out of Nothing

Atomism

EMMY-COMBINATIONISM AT WORK?

RETELLING THE EMPIRICIST STORY

REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION AND ACCESS

REPRESENTATIONAL RANKS

ANALOGY, STORAGE AND ACCESS

INPUT AND OUTPUT CREATIVITY

CREATIVITY AND RUNAWAY LEARNING

OF LOOPS AND LOOPINESS

SO WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

EMERGENCE

NOTES

REFERENCES

1 Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye-and Doing My Best Not to Flinch

HOW YOUNG I WAS, AND HOW NAÏVE

CHESS TUMBLES TO COMPUTATIONAL POWER . . .

. . . AND SO, IS MUSICAL BEAUTY NEXT IN LINE?

THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING

LECTURING ON EMMY IN MANY DIFFERENT VENUES

A PERSONAL VIEW OF HOW EMMY WORKS

Syntactic Meshing in Emmy: Voice-Hooking and Texture-Matching

Semantic Meshing in Emmy: Tension-Resolution Logic and SPEAC Labels

Signatures

Templagiarism

The Acid Test: Hearing and Voting

To Sound Like Bach and to Speak Like Bach

The Nested Circles of Style

When Does a Beatles Song Sound Like a Bach Chorale?

A Portrait that "Looks Like" Its Intended Subject

Lewis Rowell's "Bach Grammar"

Emmy Tries Her Hand at Doing Chopin

COMPOSING IN YOUR SLEEP . . . OR IN YOUR GRAVE

IS LANGUAGE INTRINSICALLY DEEPER THAN MUSIC?

Three Flavors of Pessimism

APPENDIX: A FEW STANDARD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

DISCUSSION

NOTE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books and Articles

Compact Disks

2 Acquisition and Productivity in Perceptual Symbol Systems: An Account of Mundane Creativity

MUNDANE AND EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVITY

SYMBOL SYSTEMS

Amodal Symbol Systems

Perceptual Symbol Systems

MUNDANE CREATIVITY: CONCEPT ACQUISITION

Concept Acquisition as a Form of Creativity

Concept Acquisition in Amodal Symbol Systems

Concept Acquisition in Perceptual Symbol Systems

MUNDANE CREATIVITY: PRODUCTIVITY

Productivity as a Form of Creativity

Productivity in Amodal Symbol Systems

Productivity in Perceptual Symbol Systems

CONSTRUCTING PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS

Classical Models

Connectionist Models

Embodied Systems

3 Creativity and the Varieties of Explicitation

INTERNAL RE-REPRESENTATION

NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION

WEAK NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION

STRONG NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION

EXPLICITATION AND CREATIVITY

4 Creativity, Relational Knowledge, and Capacity: Why Are Humans So Creative?

TYPES OF REPRESENTATIONS

Rank 0: Performance Without Representations

Rank 1: Computed, Nonstructural Representations

Ranks 2-6: Relational Representations

Rank 2: Representations with Two Components

Rank 3: Representations with Three Components

Rank 4: Representations with Four Components

Rank 5: Representations with Five Components

Rank 6: Representations with Six Components

THOUGHT AND RANK OF REPRESENTATION

Representational Rank of Animals and Children

Relational Complexity and Creativity

REPRESENTATIONS IN COMPUTERS

Models of Creative Processing

ACQUISITION OF RELATIONAL KNOWLEDGE

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES.

5 Analogy and Creativity: Schema Induction in a Structure-Sensitive Connectionist Model

ANALOGICAL ACCESS AND MAPPING IN LISA

Basic Architecture

Basic Operation

Dynamics of Mapping

Capacity Limits on Mapping in LISA

INFERENCE AND SCHEMA INDUCTION IN LISA

Self-Supervised Encoding of Structure

What to Encode: Discovering the Schema in the Instances

Extensions of Schema Induction

Analogical Inferences from Source to Target

6 Creativity: A Computational Modeling Approach

THE CORTICAL AROUSAL THEORY

CREATIVITY AS NORMAL PROBLEM SOLVING

A THEORY OF EMERGENT MEMORY: A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL

AGENT SELECTION STRATEGY: THE POINT OF COMPARISON

COMPUTATIONAL BEHAVIOR

THE "AHA!" PHENOMENON: CAUSE OR EFFECT?

CHUNKING AND MAGIC NUMBERS

CONTROLLED RANDOMNESS

BREAKING OUT AND GOING WRONG

7 Creativity and Runaway Learning

LEARNING ANALYZED AS A TASK

THE NEED FOR RECURSIVE RELATIONAL LEARNING

AN EXAMPLE OF RUNAWAY RELATIONAL LEARNING

8 Letter Spirit: Perception and Creation of Diverse Alphabetic Styles

FLUID CONCEPTS AND CREATIVITY

THE MOTIVATION OF LETTER SPIRIT

The Grid

Letters as Concepts

CREATING A GRIDFONT

FOUR GLOBAL MEMORY STRUCTURES

FOUR INTERACTING EMERGENT AGENTS

THE CENTRAL FEEDBACK LOOP OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS

NOTE

9 Results in the Letter Spirit Project

THE EXAMINER

THE ADJUDICATOR

THE THEMATIC FOCUS

THE DRAFTER

THE LETTER SPIRIT LOOP

RESULTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

REFERENCE

10 Emergence and Creativity: Five Degrees of Freedom

REDUCTIONISM AND ANTI-REDUCTIONISM

VARIETIES OF EMERGENCE.

FIVE DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND CREATIVITY

Epiphenomenal Creativity

Indeterministic Creativity

Configurational Creativity

Subpersonal Agential Creativity

Personal-Level Creativity

CRITICISMS OF EMERGENT MATERIALISM

Index

About the Editor and the Contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400633553

9786610422937

9781280422935

1280422939

9780313012471

0313012474

OCLC:

614636989