Crossing the Threshold Paradox: Creative Cognition in the Global Workspace
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I present a hypothetical global model of everyday creative cognition located within Baars’ Global Workspace Theory, based on theories of predictive cognition and specific work on statistical modelling of music perception. The key idea is a proposal for regulating access to the Global Workspace, overcoming what Baars calls the Threshold Paradox. This idea is motivated as a general mechanism for managing the world, and an argument is given as to its evolutionary value. I then show how this general mechanism produces effects which are indistinguishable from spontaneous creative inspiration, best illustrated by Wallas’ (1926) “Aha!” moment. I argue that W. A. Mozart’s introspective account of compositional experience closely matches the proposed process, and refer to a computational system which will form the basis of an implementation of the ideas, for musical composition.
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