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When a human needs something to drink from, and no cup is available, he is able to use a bowl, a bucket or even a boot for such purposes. The human is thus capable of creative object replacement.
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Oltețeanu, AM. (2020). What Could You Use This Object for? – Object Replacement and Object Composition in a Computational System, and the Alternative Uses Test. In: Cognition and the Creative Machine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30322-8_10
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