What is Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas about?
It’s about how imaginative minds, using a combination of intuition, insight, and externally embedded intelligence, make creative leaps. The standard story about such leaps—printing with movable type, the discovery of DNA, the Apple iPod—is that they are the product of supremely gifted individuals, also known as geniuses. Unfortunately, mainstream psychology hasn’t been able to throw much light on what genius is. However, a new paradigm is emerging that directly challenges a major assumption of most current theories of creative thinking, namely that the intelligence that drives it is located exclusively inside the head. Leading philosophers and mind/brain scientists like Daniel Dennett and Andy Clark argue that, contrary to both the academic and commonsense view, the mind extends out into the world. As Clark succinctly puts it, “Our brains make the world smart so we ourselves can be dumb in peace.” Once we recognize the existence of external sources of intelligence, we can begin to conc
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