Human creativity: Its cognitive basis, its evolution, and its connections with childhood pretence
Human creativity: Its cognitive basis, its evolution, and its connections with childhood pretence
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DOI：
10.1093/bjps/53.2.225
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Carruthers, P
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作者：
Carruthers, P
本文件为两项初步索赔辩护。首先，它认为，基本上相同的认知资源是共享的成人创造性思维和解决问题的能力，一方面，和儿童假装游戏，另一方面，即能力产生和推理的假设（或想象的可能性）。其次，它认为童年假装的进化功能是实践和增强成人形式的创造力。本文继续展示了这些建议如何能够提供一个平滑的和进化上合理的解释之间的差距差距我们的物种在南部非洲的第一次出现在大约10万年前，和“创造性爆炸”的文化，技术和艺术的变化发生在分散的人类种群约6万年后。本文的目的是勾勒出一个建议，这可能是未来的跨学科研究的指导。
This paper defends two initial claims. First, it argues that essentially the same cognitive resources are shared by adult creative thinking and problem-solving, on the one hand, and by childhood pretend play, on the other-namely, capacities to generate and to reason with suppositions (or imagined possibilities). Second, it argues that the evolutionary function of childhood pretence is to practice and enhance adult forms of creativity. The paper goes on to show how these proposals can provide a smooth and evolutionarily-plausible explanation of the gap between the first appearance of our species in Southern Africa some 100,000 years ago, and the 'creative explosion' of cultural, technological and artistic change which took place within dispersed human populations some 60,000 years later. The intention of the paper is to sketch a proposal which might serve as a guide for future interdisciplinary research.