Arne Dietrich's scientific contributions

Publication (1)

Book
How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative. It has a sharp focus: to stick exclusively to sound, mechanistic explanations and convey what we can, and cannot, say about how brains give rise to creative ideas.

Citations

... The first is the creativity faculty fallacy, the mistaken thinking that creativity is its own and unified thing. The second is the false category formation, the habit of prematurely linking this creativity faculty, in its entirety, to one side of a specific ability, characteristic, trait, behavior, mental process, or neural system, despite evidence that creative acts can just as well come into existence otherwise (Dietrich, 2015(Dietrich, , 2019a. ...