Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications (2012, background): “How can a variant with a low probability be considered sighted if it has a high utility? Truly sighted thought trials must have probabilities that positively correlate with their utilities (Simonton, 2012).”
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