Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology

Felix T Hong

Publications

• Review Article
  Deciphering the Enigma of Human Creativity: Can a Digital Computer Think?
  Author(s): Felix T HongFelix T Hong
  
  The objective of the present article is a) to explain humans’ high creativity in non-mystic and unambiguous terms, b) to evaluate the performance of problem-solving computer programs and c) to make suggestions about future designs of heuristics. Unlike many previous attempts in the past century, we sought inspiration from two sources that had been neglected or excluded from considerations by experts: artificial intelligence and introspections of a number of highly creative individuals, who confessed that they had a penchant for visual thinking. Simonton’s chance-configuration model was refurbished accordingly. It is now possible for the refurbished model to explain a number of outstanding puzzles that had eluded our predecessors: a) what intuition is, b) why creators had no idea about their source of inspiration even after the fact, c) a peculi.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/jcsb.1000120

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