Cognition and the Creative Machine

Introduction.- Part I, Rebraiding the Strands: Creativity and Problem-Solving, Human and Computational.- Creativity, Problem-Solving and Insight.- Knowledge Organization for Creative Problem-Solving.- Computational Creativity and Systems.- Two Types of Evaluation: Human Creativity, Computational Creativity.- Part II, One Ring to Creatively Solve Them All? In Search of a Unified Framework.- Gathering the Cogs of a Framework.- CreaCogs: A Clockwork View of Creativity.- The Cogs in Motion: Navigating the Knowledge in CreaCogs.- Part III, Empirical and Computational Explorations.- What Do Swiss, Cake and Cottage Have in Common? Computational Explorations of the Remote Associates Test.- What Could You Use this Object for? Object Replacement and Object Composition in a Computational System,and the Alternative Uses Test.- Daily Eurekas About Candles and Strings. Approaching Insight with Practical Insight Problems.- The Journey Thus Far and the Journey Ahead.- App. A: Human and System Answers to Variants of the Remote Associates Test.- App, B: OROC Results.

"This book enhances our understanding of the principles of problem solving in the epoch of AI and deserves to be widely read in this age of intelligent machines. The CreaCogs cognitive framework proposed here could be served as an applicable guide for graduate students and researchers in the sphere of Cognitive Science, AI, and Education." (Zhihui Chen and Ruixing Ye, Science & Education, Vol. 31 (2), April, 2022)

“This book enhances our understanding of the principles of problem solving in the epoch of AI and deserves to be widely read in this age of intelligent machines. The CreaCogs cognitive framework proposed here could be served as an applicable guide for graduate students and researchers in the sphere of Cognitive Science, AI, and Education.” (Zhihui Chen and Ruixing Ye, Science & Education, Vol. 31 (2), April, 2022)