Tag Archives: System Type

The Population Automation Model This model of creativity focusses on the various populations within creation processes (Greene, Journal, Sept. 1999). There are populations of possible problems, ways to represent problems, possible solutions, ways that particular solutions fail, possible modifications of … Continue reading →

The Adjacent Beyond Model If we invent one new thing and add it to the world, it can be combined with some of all the previously existing things in that world. Each new thing added exponentially expands the total possible … Continue reading →

The Surprise Model There seem to be at least two entirely different sources of surprise. One is system effects, unwanted and unexpected side-effects of interventions that humans make in the world. The other is unusual frameworks and analogies they produce … Continue reading →

The System Effects Model Systems effects are a kind of inverse creativity. Humans plan some intervention to change or improve a system and instead of what they planned, unwanted side-effects dominate their planned for effects. Such system effects are highly … Continue reading →

The Darwinian Model One of the non-linear model types is natural selection, the most creative process in the known universe, the one that invented human beings. The simplest form of this model is the four operators–variation, combination, selection, and reproduction. … Continue reading →

The Non-Linear Systems Model There are quite a few people who believe this is the ultimate theory of creativity. Its scope is enormous–the origins of the universe, the origins of life itself, the origins of Darwin’s natural selection process (which … Continue reading →