<:> Creativity identified with transformation



Boden then makes her key move.

We can now distinguish first-time novelty from radical originality ... A merely novel idea is one which can be described and/or produced by the same set of generative rules as are other, familiar ideas. A genuinely original, or creative, idea is one which cannot.


A new concept, then, is to be considered genuinely creative (i.e., P-creative) just in case its construction involved some element of transformation.