Insights into the creativity process

If you didn’t know the topic, but overheard a conversation in which rescuing a baby wallaby from its mother’s pouch’ was mentioned, you would probably think of other units of meaning that were expected features such as the long tail of the mother, her claws and pointed ears. Our units of meaning for a topic are linked together into networks. When some units are stimulated by information we detect, there is a flow on to other linked units also being stimulated.