“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
In a computer model of creativity there should be junk lying around that your creative processes can bump into, noises that your creative processes can’t help overhearing. The spontaneous intrusion of that little noise from the next room may tweak what those processes are doing in a way that is serendipitous, or in a way that is destructive, but
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Every now and then I flirt with this idea that chaos breeds creativity ... I think this is true, but this is not the same as saying that chaos is the only, or even the ideal, environment for breeding creativity. Chaos is better that sterility for sure, but there are things which are better than both.
