Creativity, Errors, and Conclusions
Because the human mind is finite
and a neural network, we do much of our thinking via images/concepts/gesalts
that are inexact.
When we are trying to reach conclusions, we must always accept
a level of unsureness. How we each come to our own level of acceptable
unsureness I will not venture to answer, but we do.
What is important for this discussion is that some of us
can accept a wide range of divergence and still see the conclusion as
worthy of consideration. When one draw analogies, how many of the dimensions
of the two items must be similar? Creative people may only need one dimension,
while perfectionists might need all dimensions but one to be similar.
And th realists and pragmatists among us accept some middle amount.
Creativity is the ability to see relationships with few dimensions
of similarity (when limited by lack of information we call it intuition).
Of course, such creativity can lead to erronous conclusions.
Perfectionists by awaiting analogies where all dimensions but one similarp lends strength to conclusions, but makes their conclusions more scarce.
