Open Questions: Creativity and Problem Solving

Galaxy: Creativity: Categorized site directory. Entries usually include descriptive annotations. More here.
Creativity Web Sites: Includes subcategories for the psychology of creativity, organizations.

Unleashing Creativity: March 2005 Scientific American Mind article, subtitled "Moments of brilliance arise from complex cognitive processes. Piece by piece, researchers are uncovering the secrets of creative thinking."

Creativity at the Metalevel
Bruce G. Buchanan
AI Magazine, Fall 2001, pp. 13-28: Human creativity has been studied extensively by psychologists and philosophers, and a number of similar models of the creative process have been proposed. All seem to involve an iterative process of generating plausible solutions and testing them. All these have certain commonalities, such as methods of solution generation and collections of verification criteria. Higher level creativity may arise at the "metalevel" by systematically varying such methods and criteria.
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