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The interest in ideas and where they come from is an old one, dating back at least to pre-Socratic philosophers and continuing to the present-day theories of creative thinking. The question of where ideas come from has been answered in a variety of ways: ideas can come from the gods, from the imagination, from a mind trained in reasoning, from a haphazard association of memories, from stimulating images, from a subconscious bank of archetypes, from memories transformed by mental schemata, and from attempts to solve problems.
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O’Looney, J.A., Glynn, S.M., Britton, B.K., Mattocks, L.F. (1989). Cognition and Writing. In: Glover, J.A., Ronning, R.R., Reynolds, C.R. (eds) Handbook of Creativity. Perspectives on Individual Differences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5356-1_18
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