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      The Creative Mind book

      Myths and Mechanisms

      The Creative Mind

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      The Creative Mind book

      Myths and Mechanisms
      ByMargaret A. Boden
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2003
      eBook Published 18 September 2003
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203508527
      Pages 360
      eBook ISBN 9780203508527
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Humanities
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      Boden, M.A. (2003). The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203508527

      ABSTRACT

      How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner?

      When The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms was first published, Margaret A. Boden's bold and provocative exploration of creativity broke new ground. Boden uses examples such as jazz improvisation, chess, story writing, physics, and the music of Mozart, together with computing models from the field of artificial intelligence to uncover the nature of human creativity in the arts.

      The second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author. It is an essential work for anyone interested in the creativity of the human mind.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |10 pages

      IN A NUTSHELL

      chapter 1|14 pages

      THE MYSTERY OF CREATIVITY

      chapter 2|15 pages

      THE STORY SO FAR

      chapter 3|14 pages

      THINKING THE IMPOSSIBLE

      chapter 4|34 pages

      MAPS OF THE MIND

      chapter 5|37 pages

      CONCEPTS OF COMPUTATION

      chapter 6|22 pages

      CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

      chapter 7|52 pages

      UNROMANTIC ARTISTS

      chapter 8|34 pages

      COMPUTER-SCIENTISTS

      chapter 9|23 pages

      CHANCE, CHAOS, RANDOMNESS, UNPREDICTABILITY

      chapter 10|21 pages

      ELITE OR EVERYMAN?

      chapter 11|28 pages

      Of Humans and Hoverflies

      chapter 12|18 pages

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