creativity

n. innovativeness, inventiveness; artistry; ability to create

Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) are usually considered to have both originality and appropriateness. An alternative, more everyday conception of creativity is that it is simply the act of making something new. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.
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Creativity, n the ability to imagine and create through innovation and synthesis. [more]Creativity - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the ability to create
(synonym) creativeness, creative thinking
(hypernym) ability, power
(hyponym) fecundity, fruitfulness
(part-meronym) divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking
(attribute) creative, originative

Creativity is an acid test for AI and cognitive science . If computers cannot be creative, then (a) they cannot be intelligent, and (b) people are not machines. However, the standard arguments against machine intelligence are not convincing.
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