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Individuals contribute to science, technology, and the humanities within one or more specific-domains, general-domains, and multiple domains. We discuss how the construct of intelligence, as defined by the IQ or g-factor is frequently associated with intellectual achievements related to general and specific domains. However, it’s less clear how the g-factor relates to creativity, when it comes to art, music, and literature. One way of describing creativity uses the various ways in which such behavior plays out through the four P’s of creativity: person, product, places, and persuasion.
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Analogical reasoning employs similarities between two systems to support the conclusion that some further similarity exists.
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Animals can appear to exhibit signs of being creative, but it’s believed these signs are simply reflections of behavior learned in the course of evolution, encoded in the genome.
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A group at Dartmouth hosts a website that runs a competition for algorithmic creation of short stories, sonnets and dance music sets, which people cannot distinguish as created between human and machines. See, http://bregman.dartmouth.edu/turingtests/node/12 (Last visited 11/24/2018).
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The cross-fertilization between fields of science are but one example, where this form of analogy is frequently used as a means of looking at one phenomenon in terms of another. M.J.E. Golay, in 1961, received the Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry (one of chemistry’s highest accolades). He told his audience that he was not a chemist, but a communication’s engineer, asking them to remember that, “many … advances in science are due to the cross-fertilization of, at first view, separate distinct fields.”
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Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions…. By contrast, divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing, “non-linear” manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion—Wikipedia.
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Psychoticism refers to a personality typified by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility; schizotypal refers to a mental disorder typified by severe social anxiety, thought disorder, paranoid ideation, derealization, transient psychosis, and unconventional beliefs.
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The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. See, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/.
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Carvalko Jr., J.R. (2020). Framing What We Mean. In: Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26407-9_29
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