Chapter 1. Confluence
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Johan F. Hoorn
Abstract
Where many rivers come together and the salt water of the sea mixes in, the most awesome life forms appear. Confluence. As an outline to the theory, the current chapter provides the rationale of this book. The unifying principle it advances is that of combination making, visible in the formation of matter, in the genesis of organisms, in the novelty-accelerating function of the brain. It is a somewhat neglected area in the traditional, read rule-oriented, problem solving literature and it has genuine consequences for our philosophy of truth and reality. We will find that in its most premature stage, human creative insight pertains to quantum behavior at the synapses while in later evaluative stages, fractal emergence plays a role. In all, building up and breaking down combinatory creations seem to be the doing of the two laws of thermodynamics.
Abstract
Where many rivers come together and the salt water of the sea mixes in, the most awesome life forms appear. Confluence. As an outline to the theory, the current chapter provides the rationale of this book. The unifying principle it advances is that of combination making, visible in the formation of matter, in the genesis of organisms, in the novelty-accelerating function of the brain. It is a somewhat neglected area in the traditional, read rule-oriented, problem solving literature and it has genuine consequences for our philosophy of truth and reality. We will find that in its most premature stage, human creative insight pertains to quantum behavior at the synapses while in later evaluative stages, fractal emergence plays a role. In all, building up and breaking down combinatory creations seem to be the doing of the two laws of thermodynamics.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Venus rose xv
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Confluence 11
- Chapter 2. Two world views 33
- Chapter 3. Problem solving 67
- Chapter 4. The creative process 109
- Chapter 5. The Creative Sigmoid 175
- Chapter 6. Conditions of creativity 227
- Chapter 7. Creation 275
- Make – Take 293
- References 295
- List of referenced figures 313
- Index 317
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Venus rose xv
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Confluence 11
- Chapter 2. Two world views 33
- Chapter 3. Problem solving 67
- Chapter 4. The creative process 109
- Chapter 5. The Creative Sigmoid 175
- Chapter 6. Conditions of creativity 227
- Chapter 7. Creation 275
- Make – Take 293
- References 295
- List of referenced figures 313
- Index 317
