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A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness

Drawn from what Daniel Dennett said

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creativity Making something new: where ideas come from, what conditions let them come, and whether a machine can have them.

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  1. Daniel Dennett American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist (1942 to 2024)
    As soon as that happens, you have room for cooperation to create alliances, and I suspect that a more free-wheeling, anarchic organization is the secret of our greater capacities of creativity, imagination, thinking outside the box and all that, and the price we pay for it is our susceptibility to obsessions, mental illnesses, delusions and smaller problems.

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