The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms
Boden separates combinational, exploratory and transformational creativity, then tests each against what machines could do, back when computational models were still in their infancy.
Boden’s account of creativity as something explicable rather than magical, distinguishing combinational, exploratory and transformational creativity, and testing each against what machines could then do. Written when computational models were in their infancy, and still the clearest framework available. Her point was never that computers would be creative, but that trying to build one shows you what you actually mean by the word.
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Maria Popova
Few have reckoned with these questions more deeply, or more durationally, than British philosopher Margaret Boden (November 26, 1936–July 18, 2025), who composed her revelatory book The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (public library) when the Internet was just a few years old and computational models still in their infancy.
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