Creative Evolution. Henri Bergson , Arthur Mitchell

Is evolution fundamentally creative?

Categorizing, defining, and observing open-endedness are among the most important open research challenges in artificial life. As a step towards addressing these challenges, this paper highlights parallels between open-ended evolution (OEE) and the theory of computational creativity. Exposing this relationship may allow existing empirical tools for quantifying creativity to more clearly illumin...

Is Evolution Creative?

Can evolution demonstrate some of the properties of creativity? This paper argues that it can, and provides examples which the author feels illustrate some of the awesome power and feats of design which resemble creativity. Is evolution, then, truly creative? This is clearly a much harder question, for it requires a definition of creativity – that most subjective and controversial of words. Thi...

The Socratic Bergson

The Mechanism of Creative Evolution

Since the rediscovery of Mendel's papers in 1900, the science of genetics has grown rapidly. Not only has there been a rich increase in our factual knowledge but there has also appeared a new and elaborate vocabulary. The complexity of the former and the unfamiliarity of the latter has made the science of genetics an almost unknown land for all who are not specialists in that field. It is, ther...

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...