whats more interesting to me is their attempt to give creativity a process signature, a temporal shape. i feel this can be applied to measure how a tool/interface (like blackboard here) acts as part of that notational niche and helps drive up the behavioral surprisal that can lead to breakthru moments.
the result: mins before an "aha," that surprisal climbs: they start connecting marks they'd never connected and abandon their familiar moves. the eureka doesn't come from nowhere, the behavior destabilizes first.
but in the context of the paper the ecosystem is the mathematician's "notational niche": the blackboard, writing, sketches, gestures and even gaze. the researcher collects all of them and measure how surprising one action is given the preceding ones.
one research interests of mine is how creativity emerges in both humans and machines. reading this paper studying how mathematicians come up with their eureka moments: it treats them as a critical transition in a complex system, the same for regime shifts in ecosystems
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