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This presentation will be more concerned with creativity than with cognition in the usual import of that word. I believe that we need a lot of creativity to fertilize cognitive psychology and make it the radical pioneer it should be, and often pretends to be, in the science of the mind It is only fitting, then, that I begin with some critical reflections.
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Smith, G. (1997). The Internal Breeding-Ground of Creativity. In: Andersson, Å.E., Sahlin, NE. (eds) The Complexity of Creativity. Synthese Library, vol 258. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8788-4_4
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