Modelo cibernético de la capacidad creativa. En el hombre y en otros sistemas materiales
- Autores: Carlos García-Delgado Segués
- Directores de la Tesis: Lázaro Vicente Cremades Oliver (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2011
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Jorge Wagensberg (presid.), Margarita González Benítez (secret.), Camilo José Cela Conde (voc.)
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- Resumen
This thesis aims to open up a path toward the investigation of the creative act understood as the result of a cybernetic relation between Memory (including a change generator capable of re-combining data) and Conscience (including a capability to enquire, visualize, judge, decide and correct).
The starting point is a reflection on certain myths and taboos in our culture which have acted as obstacles to the analysis of the creative capacity. The most consequential such obstacle goes back to Classical Greece, i.e., the over-evaluation of the conscious process. The observation, through simple experiments of certain non-conscious processes, such as re-memorization and image generation (imagination), has paved the way. A few disciplines such as Cybernetics, Models Theory, Systems Theory, the Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge or Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes, have contributed new keys toward the analysis of the creative process. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of considering all living beings as Memory.
Our thesis proposes a definition of invention as an increase of information (acquired by an individual or a system appertaining to a class), inedited (previously non-existent in this class), useful (capable of increasing the individual, and his class, stability) and transferable (capable of being transmitted to other individuals in the same class); and it further proposes a Cybernetic Model of Memory-Consciousness as the cause of a human being¿s creative capacity; that is to say, as an Inventor System capable of carrying-out increases of inedited information which is useful, through internal processes.
We also analyze the exploratory process as a continuum of decisions and routines. The variations of chance intervention, it is observed, are elevated at the points of decision (bifurcation) while lowered in the course of the routine runs (execution of decision).
During this process, the act of decision appears as the consequence of an iterative process of correction (cybernetic) in a chain of questions and answers between Memory and Conscience.
It is proposed a Kynetic Theory of Memory based on the continuous mobility of the data contained in the Memory and the Memorys autonomy (as different from Consciousness) capable of generating images and giving rise to the concept of Memory Temperature as a factor responsible for imagination. It is observed that Memory Temperature is an inverse magnitude to the levels of conscious activity (measured by cerebral frequencies EEG), and it is proposed the theoretical curve between the awakening and dreaming states. This allows for a geometric approximation for the drawing of a curve capable of representing Creativity (CC=k.i.j.) on the basis of Memory Temperature. Observations suggest that the point of maximum creative productivity corresponds to a level of attenuated consciousness, a transitional state between the dreaming and awakening states.
In the last section, certain methods are offered to increase creative capacity. By analyzing certain ancestral strategies from ancient cultures, and findings obtained through the course, have led to the technique of autonomous imagination pursuant to which it is possible to generate autonomous imaginations and to visualize them while an attenuated level of consciousness is maintained, sufficient to activate the cybernetic circuit.
By way of closure, it is proposed a generalization of the model of cybernetic inventor applied to other levels of organization of matter. A human beings creative capacity is the result of an evolutionary phylogenetic process which is present in all living species: a process of addition of correcting systems aiming to higher levels of stability, existing in all material systems, included the inorganic systems.
