Creativity, Cognition, and Knowledge : An Interaction.

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 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Creativity and the Varieties of Explicitation -- INTERNAL RE-REPRESENTATION -- NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION -- WEAK NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION -- STRONG NOTATIONAL RE-REPRESENTATION -- EXPLICITATION AND CREATIVITY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 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 -- DISCUSSION -- 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 -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 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 -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 7 Creativity and Runaway Learning -- LEARNING ANALYZED AS A TASK -- THE NEED FOR RECURSIVE RELATIONAL LEARNING -- AN EXAMPLE OF RUNAWAY RELATIONAL LEARNING -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- 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 -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 9 Results in the Letter Spirit Project -- THE EXAMINER -- THE ADJUDICATOR -- THE THEMATIC FOCUS -- THE DRAFTER -- THE LETTER SPIRIT LOOP -- RESULTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTE -- 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 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index -- About the Editor and the Contributors.

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