Inventiveness and Creativity

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• Creativityconcept0.845
  The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
• Inventiveness, creativity, and discovery are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in an environment.claim0.840
  The central axiom of Nicholson's theory, establishing the causal relationship between environmental complexity and human cognitive/creative capacity.
• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.787
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.783
  Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.777
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Creativity comes from discovering the new within a structure already latent in the present; respect for what is leads to the most beautiful discoveries.claim0.770
  Alexander's definition of true creativity.
• Creativity in Playconcept0.766
• Artistic Creationconcept0.765