https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/04/cover-science-creativity
One involves what cognitive scientists call "System 1" (also called "Type 1") processes: quick, unconscious thoughts—aha moments—that burst into consciousness. A second route involves "System 2" processes: thinking that is slow, deliberate, and conscious. "Creativity can use one or the other or a combination of the two," he

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beautiful-minds/201108/is-conscientiousness-compatible-creativity
Like prior studies, they found no direct relationship between Conscientiousness and employee creativity (as measured by supervisors) among workers. However, for employees high in Conscientiousness

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516737/
The topics of creativity and consciousness are treated separately, though have a common sub-structure. It is argued that creativity arises from a synergy between two cognitive modes of the human brain (which broadly coincide with Kahneman's Systems 1 and 2). ... The same points have been emphasised by Andrew Wiles: "In particular, when you

https://academic.oup.com/book/6463/chapter/150308433
Addressing rival theories about the possible role of consciousness in creativity, this chapter uses theory and experimental evidence to argue that creativity requires interactive collaboration of conscious and unconscious processes. ... These same notes are repeated over and over up and down the piano keyboard: These are simply higher and lower

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7395604/
Creativity researchers have long been intrigued by the fact that the same creative problems can either be solved through ... The TM-Sidhi program, pure consciousness, creativity and intelligence. The Journal of Creative Behavior. 1985; 19:270-275. [Google Scholar] Jeffrey B., Craft A. Teaching creatively and teaching for creativity

https://hughhowey.com/creativity-and-consciousness/
Another argument against AI creativity is that it can't be creative in the same way we are because it lacks our emotions, our experiences, even our bodies (our hormones, pain sensors, etc). Except that babies and even small children have emotions, experiences, and bodies full of hormones and sensors, and we do not treat them as conscious

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-theater-the-brain/201904/consciousness
Consciousness is a brain-generated neurologic illusion. ... of us. It is our innocence. It is the source of our creativity, our ... consciousness are actually linked expressions of the same thing.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-43236-010
In this chapter the author assume that the human mind contains multiple parts and processes, and these differ widely as to how conscious they are. Some functions and processes seem utterly and irrevocably outside of consciousness. Others are outside of consciousness but are potentially accessible to conscious attention. And others occur in the full spotlight of consciousness. Creative work has

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374521000066
This paper will summarise the four principles underlying creative intuition, which are: •. it involves a state of expanded consciousness. •. it is an open, fluid way of being. •. it focuses on the particular, rather than the general. •. it is an act of fusion or identification which occurs through emotion or empathy.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-018-1517-7
And it would not matter if the creative bit is a place(s), a network(s), or is added by enhanced connectivity between networks (for additional details on network connectivity, see Beaty et al., 2016); the tacit assumption is the same. In that way, creativity might resemble consciousness, which also is not tackled as a monolithic concept using

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/23/virginia-woolf-a-wave-in-the-mind/
Undoubtedly one of humanity's most beautiful minds and greatest masters of elegant, pleasurable language is Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882-March 28, 1941) — a mastery that unfolded with equal enchantment in her public writings as well as her private, as both sprang from the same source of passion and perspicacity. But nowhere was Woolf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115284/
The Mind. We are embodied spirits and inspirited bodies, (or, if you will, embodied minds and minded bodies). (Anonymous, 2003) Mind has been variously defined as that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings, the seat of the faculty of reason or the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/30095459.pdf
Freedom of consciousness is the work of a freedom that fosters lifetime. An open mind, an active imagination, creativity and confidence in our ability to expand our horizons by learning something new and so to change our mind, all contribute to the kind of freedom of consciousness that fosters creativity. Consciousness, as self-presence or

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571064518300599
The former of these is the creativity where, for example, a professional designer must produce a product in too short a time to wait for inspiration: she consciously applies rules of her craft as necessary. The latter is the creativity where an idea or concept appears in one's awareness, apparently without bidding, effort or intention.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/
2.2 State consciousness. The notion of a conscious mental state also has a variety of distinct though perhaps interrelated meanings. There are at least six major options. States one is aware of. On one common reading, a conscious mental state is simply a mental state one is aware of being in (Rosenthal 1986, 1996).

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-does-the-human-brain-create-consciousness-and-why
How the brain conjures conscious awareness from the electrical activity of billions of individual nerve cells remains one of the great unanswered questions of life. Each of us knows that we are

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03335-5
The answer, according to Dennett, was consciousness. Consciousness, for him, is a control architecture that takes competing streams of ideas and determines from them our expectations and actions

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421100932.htm
A new study is the first-ever to identify the genes for creativity in Homo sapiens that distinguish modern humans from chimpanzees and Neanderthals. The research identified 267 genes that are

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115302/
Consciousness, the unconscious and creativity are all important facets of the human mind. They are extremely difficult to study rigorously. This paper has described several approaches that can be used. In particular, functional imaging studies offer an objective tool for studying these complex facets of the human mind.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/consciousness-and-the-brain/202210/the-first-4-fundamentals-about-consciousness-and-the-brain
The first thing to learn is what a "conscious content" is. Any particular thing one is conscious of has been referred to as a "conscious content.". A conscious content could be the sight

https://www.verywellmind.com/how-conscientiousness-affects-your-behavior-4843763
People who are high in conscientiousness tend to be very responsible, goal-directed, organized, and responsible. They make decisions carefully, are high-achieving, and stick to their commitments. Conscientiousness is a continuum; you might be high, low, or somewhere in the middle. If you want to become more conscientious, setting goals and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjY4fR-qMU
I refer to three other articles I have written related to this piece:1. "Free Will, Consciousness, Creativity, Explanations, Knowledge and Choice" - https:/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/having-fun/201611/imagination-vs-creativity-close-not-the-same
Creative activity aims to do something purposeful. The imagination is something that emerges. While creativity works towards products that exist in the real world and have real-world purpose, the

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61208306/is-consciousness-real/
"Consciousness does not need to be confined to brains," Sheldrake says. "The link between minds and physical systems seems to be through rhythmic electromagnetic fields, which of course are

https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/creativity-matters-pride
By ERIK SCHUCKERS In 2020, high on the receipt of my first AARP card, I approached Kit Ayars and Jeanne Marie Laskas at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Creativity with an idea: a program geared to LGBTQ folks age 50+ that would focus on reading and writing about our lives. Us "elders" were born into social, medical and legal landscapes much different from those that exist today