In this chapter, I explore the integration of imitative and creative aspects of children’s autonomous play as a means of examining the evolved psychology for learning within a culturally constructed niche. I investigate whether children’s play tracks expected pathways of cultural transmission across a small sample of foraging and agrarian societies, and what the settings of Aka forager and Ngan...

In this paper we present a semantic similarity metric that wholly relies on the hierarchical structure of WordNet which makes it amenable as a means of evaluating creativity when considering creative recategorizations of concepts in an Ontology (Veale, 2004). Many creative discoveries are only acknowledged long after their conception due to changes in the evaluation criteria (Bento and Cardoso,...

In the past few years, a new Artificial Intelligence area has begun to emerge, usually named Creative Reasoning. While some researchers approach the study of creativity from a human perspective, and thus try to model human creativity, we follow a different approach: we consider nature to be creative, and hence try to it in an attempt to create systems that have the potential to be creative. In ...

Creative design primarily comes from innovative combination of existing knowledge. While abduction is considered crucial for design in general, the paper also focuses on the role of abduction to integrate knowledge. Based on Schurz’s classification of abductive reasoning, the paper identifies that abduction for integrating theories can be performed by a special type of abduction called second o...

What types of learning or reasoning are involved in forming a new communication system? To answer this question, this paper presents a computational model for forming a new communication system. The model was developed with ACTR (Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational). In the model, two agents autonomously assign their roles to themselves. Agents also posses general learning mechanisms implement...

the complex and hasty worldwide changes in the areas of sciences, skills, values and criteria have forced most of the successful organizations throughout the world to shift their goals, methods and structures towards implementing creativity and innovation to provide a productive environment. in this essay, after having defined the concept of creativity, from every angle, the difference between ...