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Cognitive Computation
Published in: Cognitive Computation 3/2012

01-09-2012

Creativity Through Autonomy and Interaction

Authors: Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck

Published in: Cognitive Computation | Issue 3/2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we have sought to bring together several strands of our work, on motivation, autonomous agents and interaction between agents, to show how creativity can have a central place within what might be considered rather straightforward aspects of the design of modern computing systems. We review our previous work on the SMART agent framework and re-interpret it in the light of considerations of creativity arising from autonomy, motivation and contributing to the process of autonomous interaction. Here, behaviour is not prescribed but is determined in relation to motivation, leading to different, potentially creative outcomes for different individuals, especially during the process of interaction. Moreover, considering interaction as discovery imbues it with the same creative aspect as in scientific discovery, in which it can be argued that creativity plays a significant role in theory formation and revision. In fact, these are two sides of the same coin: in our view, the creativity in discovery arises from the motivation and autonomy of the individual involved.
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Footnotes
1
The interested reader may consult any of several Z text books such as Bowen [7], Hayes [24], Spivey [51] and Woodcock and Davies [55] for further introduction to the notation.
 
2
Of course, since this repository of goals determines how an agent can satisfy its motivations, the discovery of new ways of doing so (through new goals that enrich the goal library) is also interesting. For example, by applying analogical reasoning, new goals may be identified that satisfy motivations and extend the repository. However, while an important issue, this is outside the scope of this paper, and we leave its consideration to future work.
 
3
One possible technique that might be adopted in this context is reinforcement learning, but this is outside the scope of this paper, so we do not consider it further.
 
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Metadata
Title
Creativity Through Autonomy and Interaction
Authors
Mark d’Inverno
Michael Luck
Publication date
01-09-2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Cognitive Computation / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1866-9956
Electronic ISSN: 1866-9964
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9152-5

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