Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.

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• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.880
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• 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.claim0.839
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Inventiveness, creativity, and discovery are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in an environment.claim0.813
  The central axiom of Nicholson's theory, establishing the causal relationship between environmental complexity and human cognitive/creative capacity.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.802
• In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in itconcept0.801
  The core assertion of the Theory of Loose Parts.
• Creativityconcept0.797
  The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.796
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.795
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.