<:> Creativity as concept development
Boden's assumption is that creativity is always mediated by
conceptual development of some form.
Any creative act is always founded on conceptualisation and she sees
this in terms of the realisation of a `point' within a
`conceptual space'.
But, she says, there are two ways in which it might happen.
- If the conceptual space already has a mental representation (assumed
to take the form of a set of generative rules) realisation of a new
point is simply a matter of identifying a new location within that
space.
- If no such representation exists, then realisation of a new
point necessarily involves construction of the representation
as a preliminary step.