Artificial Intelligence and Creativity An Interdisciplinary Approach

Creativity is one of the least understood aspects of intelligence and is often seen as `intuitive' and not susceptible to rational enquiry. Recently, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in the area, principally in artificial intelligence and

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STUDIES IN COGNITIVE SYSTEMS VOLUME 17 EDITOR

James H. Fetzer, University of Minnesota, Duluth ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Fred Dretske, Stanford University Ellery Eells, University of Wisconsin, Madison Alick Elithorn, Royal Free Hospital, London Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University Alvin Goldman, University of Arizona Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University Frank Keil, Cornell University William Rapaport, State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Richards, Imperial College, London Stephen Stich, Rutgers University Lucia Vaina, Boston University Terry Winograd, Stanford University

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY An Interdisciplinary Approach Edited by TERRY DARTNALL Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-90-481-4457-0 ISBN 978-94-017-0793-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0793-0

Printed on acid-free paper Ali Rights Reserved © 1994 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SERIES PREFACE

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FOREWORD PROLOGUE MARGARET BODEN / Creativity and Computers

3

PART I / FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES TERRY DARTNALL / Introduction: On Having a Mind of Your Own

29

TERRY DARTNALL / Creativity, Thought and Representational Redescription

43

ANDY CLARK / Connectionism and Cognitive Flexibility

63

DONALD PETERSON / Re-representation and Emergent Information in Three Cases of Problem Solving

81

ROGER WALES, STEPHANIE THORNTON / Psychological Issues in Modelling Creativity

93

GRAHAM PRIEST / GOdel's Theorem and Creativity

107

RICHARD McDONOUGH / Machine Predictability Versus Human Creativity

117

PART II / CREATIVITY AND COGNITION GRAEME S. HALFORD, ROBERT LEVINSON / Introduction: Creativity and Cognition

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viii JANET WILES, GRAEME S. HALFORD, JULIE E. M. STEWART, MICHAEL S. HUMPHREYS, JOHN D. BAIN, WILLIAM H. WILSON I Tensor Models: A Creative Basis for Memory Retrieval and Analogical Mapping

145

ROBERT LEVINSON I Experience-based Creativity

161

TOBY WALSH I Creative Proof Planning

181

MAURITA HARNEY I Clues to Creativity

195

PART III I CREATIVITY AND CONNECTIONISM CHRIS THORNTON I Introduction: Creativity, Connectionism and Guided Walks

211

ANTHONY DEKKER, PAUL FARROW I Creativity, Chaos and Artificial Intelligence

217

XIN YAO I The Evolution of Connectionist Networks

233

CHRIS THORNTON I Why Connectionist Learning Algorithms Need to be More Creative

245

PART IV I CREATIVITY AND DESIGN JOHN S. GERO I Introduction: Creativity and Design

259

JOHN S. GERO I Computational Models of