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How Could a Copycat Ever be Creative?

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Can there be any doubt that to call someone a ‘copycat’ is a taunt? Surely, copycats do nothing more than mechanical mimicry. Surely, a copycat could never be creative. After all, how could merely doing the same thing as someone else ever be original?

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  1. Indiana University, USA

    Douglas Hofstadter

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  1. Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Terry Dartnall

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Hofstadter, D. (1994). How Could a Copycat Ever be Creative?. In: Dartnall, T. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Creativity. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0793-0_28

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