Models of Creativity & of Creative Processes

Este trabajo analiza diversas dimensiones filosóficas de la creatividad
a partir de las propuestas de Berys Gaut y Matthew Kieran. En primer lugar, se examina
la relación entre creatividad y valor, así como las dificultades que plantea la
denominada creatividad maléfica. Posteriormente, se estudia el papel de la
intencionalidad y la espontaneidad en los procesos creativos, destacando la importancia
de la agencia humana y del componente de incertidumbre presente en toda creación.
Finalmente, se aborda la vanidad como rasgo de carácter y su influencia sobre la
creatividad, valorando críticamente sus posibles efectos positivos y sus principales
limitaciones.

Artificial intelligence is frequently examined as a productivity instrument, automation mechanism, or decision-support technology. Prevailing scholarship concentrates on organisational adoption, workforce augmentation, and operational efficiency within conventional institutional frameworks.
This conceptual paper advances an alternative perspective: artificial intelligence as a persistent infrastructure layer capable of supporting analysis, generation, coordination, simulation, and execution across diverse economic workflows. Drawing upon systems theory, organisational economics, cognitive science, and digital entrepreneurship literature, the study proposes a novel architectural framework explaining how AI may reduce coordination costs and expand individual productive capacity beyond traditional organisational boundaries.
Five original conceptual contributions are developed:
• Human Leverage Architecture
• Operator Stack Framework
• Sovereign Enterprise Architecture
• Economic Unit Transformation Model
• AI Infrastructure Paradigm
The paper contends that AI increasingly functions as infrastructure rather than discrete software, thereby enabling new forms of economic participation through AI-augmented operators and sovereign enterprises. Implications for organisational design, digital entrepreneurship, future work systems, computational leverage, and emerging economic structures are explored.
Presented as a conceptual foundation, this work intends to inform and support future empirical research on AI-enabled economic actors, leverage systems, and organisational transformation.

El presente trabajo examina algunas de las principales concepciones
filosóficas de la creatividad. En primer lugar, se analizan las posturas inspiracionista y
romanticista, así como las dificultades que presentan para explicar racionalmente el
fenómeno creativo. A continuación, se exponen las teorías de Poincaré y Koestler sobre
el papel del inconsciente en los procesos creativos. Seguidamente, se aborda la
distinción entre creatividad psicológica y creatividad histórica, junto con sus
implicaciones. También se estudia la noción de creatividad imposibilista desarrollada
por Margaret Boden. Finalmente, se presentan los principales tipos de creatividad:
combinatoria, exploratoria y transformacional, ilustrando sus diferencias mediante
diversos ejemplos.

Posthuman philosophical movements reach into what was once unthinkable, yet now increasingly conceptualises lived reality. Within this terrain, the living human body could shift toward the margins. The de-centred human -progressively less in control of planetary, political, economic, technological and ecological conditions -emerges through discourses of embodiment that foreground materialities of differential connectivity and entanglement. "Marks on bodies" (Foucault, Deleuze, Butler) a condition of the imperialist, now neo-colonial epoch, evidences an altered ontological template from which new forms of conceptualisation may arise. Positioned as an independent movement performance researcher and critical psychologist embedded in the unfolding vernacular of the posthuman, this writing translates posthuman concepts through embodied praxis. Operating off-grid and off-institutional, para-academic and rhizomatic, the research engages writing and arts-based practices, including Crepuscular Genre -early morning modalities of attuned listening and witnessing -and performances. This autoethnographic praxis foregrounds non-linear, transgressive, immersive and emergent methodologies as necessary conditions for accessing futures of generative, relational existence. Alongside movement practices, artistic investigations extend into process-based engagements with earth-bound substances. One of these enacts as divinatory movement on canvas with an agricultural medium. These practices generate visual and sensory registers that both exceed and remain grounded in the human body, contributing to a somatic mapping of posthuman states. Reflexivity is sustained throughout as both method and ethic, ensuring that creative outputs function as sites of inquiry rather than conclusive representation alone. From the very beginning, music, more particularly song, filled our lives with joyful noise. But on our journeys my father was quietly besieged by my enthusiastic "piano" performances along the top ridge of our old 1960 car seat, its upholstery sewn into neat strips that became my imaginary notes. With the boundless energy of a child, I would lunge from one side of the car interior to the other, play-singing my makeshift keyboard with gusto. Those lively backseat concerts must have been something to behold, because when I turned seven, my father kindly bought me a real piano. Although my parents wisely arranged formal piano training from an early age -no doubt hoping to balance their investment with proper skill -and despite matriculating with Music as one of my six subjects and holding past qualifications, I was never drawn to playing classical music or any recognisable tunes. What others hear as beautiful harmony, attunement, and satisfying resolution has always stirred a quiet dissonance in me. Those clear, often "pretentious" and comforting endingsthe effortless "A ha!" moments of finality and pleasing agreement -have often felt like an unacceptable compromise, even a subtle betrayal I need to guard against. For me, life does not arrive at such straightforward resolutions. Back to my childhood. I actually received dance training for longer than piano training. Those classes began at age 4, when my mother, this time, was besieged by my incessant desire to dance and out of desperation she found a local teacher. Over decades, the piano became an integral part of my dance performances. It accompanied my voice, movement, and an uncharacteristic form of embodied narrative that carried a distinct style -one that has never settled comfortably into any genre.

This paper explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform Arts-Based and Participatory Research (ABR) by expanding accessibility, inclusion, and creativity in education. Building on the evolution of the FotoDialogo Method©, originally developed by the author in the 1990s, it examines how AI-generated imagery can function as a dialogic tool for reflection and meaning-making in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Rather than replacing human creativity, AI is reframed as a visual co-storyteller-a collaborative instrument that democratizes access to participatory visual inquiry. Grounded in Paulo Freire's Thematic Investigation Model and Henry Murray's Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the FotoDialogo Method integrates visual "codifications" and narrative dialogue to help participants examine their lived experiences and social realities. The method originated in communitybased research with Latina women in Springfield, Massachusetts, where hand-drawn charcoal sketches inspired collective reflection, self-expression, and empowerment. These early studies confirmed the potential of visual storytelling to reveal hidden narratives and promote consciousness-raising in marginalized groups. However, the method's replication was limited by the researcher's artistic skill. The current study investigates whether AI image-generation tools can extend FotoDialogo's reach while preserving its interpretive and ethical integrity. The AI-enhanced FotoDialogo employs a four-stage process: (1) narrative collection through interviews; (2) crafting descriptive text prompts; (3) AI image generation and cultural validation; and (4) group dialogue and collective interpretation. This hybrid process merges digital literacy, visual semiotics, and participatory reflection, enabling researchers and educators without artistic training to apply ABR methods effectively. Comparing hand-drawn and AI-generated images reveals both tensions and opportunities. While artistmade drawings convey empathy and contextual depth, AI imagery introduces accessibility and scalability, making participatory research more inclusive. Yet, ethical vigilance remains essential to prevent cultural distortion and ensure participant authorship and consent. The paper situates this innovation within the theoretical frames of Freire's dialogic pedagogy, Bruner's meaning-making theory, and Eco's semiotics, emphasizing that meaning arises through the interaction between image, viewer, and context. A pilot application with educator's groups demonstrated that AIgenerated visuals-though sometimes perceived as "too perfect" or "too Western"-stimulated emotional engagement and intercultural dialogue. Ultimately, the AI-supported FotoDialogo Method illustrates how technology can serve as a partner in participatory knowledge creation. By fusing artistic imagination with machine learning, this approach broadens the scope of visual inquiry in education and social research. It contributes to ongoing debates on equity, digital transformation, and inclusion, inviting educators and researchers to reimagine dialogue, authorship, and creativity in the age of AI.

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Scopri come il pensiero positivo allunga la vita del 9%, riduce le malattie cardiache del 38% e crea successo in ogni area. Include programmi pratici di  esercizi da 1 minuto per i giorni impegnativi, e strumenti concreti per costruire fiducia incrollabile e benessere psico-fisico.

Non aspettare che la felicità arrivi – creala ogni giorno, un pensiero alla volta. Il cambiamento inizia ora.

The long-term work of a creative reasoner can be described in terms of partially independent enterprise goals, high-level goals deliberately pursued in parallel that may interact opportunistically. However, the laws governing each individual enterprise goal cannot fully predict the result of such interactions. An opportunistic synergy among enterprise goals may occur as a result of opportunistic interactions, when partial solutions to some enterprise goals can be reused to advance other enterprise goals.
According to our view, this synergy is a primary factor in creative behavior. In this dynamic model, the reasoning involved in pursuing a particular enterprise goal depends on reasoning about other enterprise goals. Creative reasoning is viewed as enterprise-directed reasoning, a deliberative pursuit of related enterprise goals in parallel by identifying and taking advantage of opportunistic synergy among goals. We discuss the nature of enterprise goals, including their posing, assessment and
processing, and how they affect the reasoning process. The theory is implemented in a program called ALEC, which operates in the domain of creative design and provides a partial computational account of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone and multiple telegraph. Enterprise-directed reasoning provides a control framework
that can integrate cognitive and/or computational processes to generate, pursue and evaluate enterprise goals. The explicit identification of significant goals of a reasoner (i.e., enterprise goals) can be used to allocate supplementary cognitive/computational resources for pursuing these goals by keeping them active in working memory. The supplementary resources allocated for enterprise goals ai'e used for identifying synergistic interactions in the network of enterprise goals of a reasoner (i.e., "going after opportunities"), that in turn facilitates the processing of enterprise goals. By following this approach, the reasoning capabilities of knowledge-based systems can be enhanced.

Most execution systems do not collapse through dramatic organizational failure. They deteriorate gradually through unresolved decision layers, ownership ambiguity, and accumulated operational friction embedded within everyday workflows. The breakdown often remains invisible in early stages because organizational activity continues even while completion reliability weakens.

This paper examines three recurring structural causes behind execution failure in modern organizations: decision overload, ownership ambiguity, and operational friction. It argues that many institutions generate excessive cognitive and procedural demands at the exact point where action is expected, slowing execution and weakening accountability.

The paper further explores how organizations normalize execution inefficiency through fragmented responsibility, approval dependency, coordination overload, and over-reliance on individual intervention rather than structural clarity. It proposes that execution quality is fundamentally a systems architecture problem rather than merely a behavioral or motivational issue.

The analysis is intended for leaders, operators, governance professionals, consultants, and institutional decision-makers seeking to improve the reliability of execution in complex organizational environments.

Around 1935, Pablo Picasso started writing poems, almost completely abandoning his career as an artist. This sudden change of emphasis may have been provoked by a number of personal and social causes. Picasso did not perceive this as an illogical shift in his output and always saw a clear connection between visual and verbal composition. His interest in alternative methods of expression might have already started with his fascination for linguistic structure as a whole with his cubist paintings. Encoding Picasso's poetic manuscripts provides an interesting case that needs to be addressed in the pedagogy and practice of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. In this paper we will discuss how Picasso's poems present a challenge for the expressive capabilities of the TEI Guidelines and offer a solution to encode graphic features and stratified text in machine-readable form.

This paper discusses a small project that explored preservice teachers’ experience of completing a creative arts unit online, because of the lockdown restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Preservice teachers and teacher educators were required to change their usual practice and adjust to deliver teaching and learning within the online space. For creative arts teaching and learning, this task was especially challenging, since teaching the arts relies heavily on practical, embodied, and experiential learning experiences. These pedagogical characteristics are difficult to replicate online, especially at short notice. For preservice teachers the issue is further complicated by having limited prior experience, and limited tertiary experience in the Creative Arts, and, consequently, limited associated skill and confidence. The paper discusses preservice teacher’s self-ratings of skill and confidence before and after completing a single Creative Arts unit. It also considers the importance of their sense of connectedness and wellbeing as experienced in this unit during the pandemic and poses the question about the most effective approach/es to early childhood ITE creative arts pedagogy.

Participatory approaches in urban design and management, particularly at the neighborhood scale, have attracted global attention since the mid-1970s. In France, resident participation in urban development projects has received particular emphasis through the national Ecoquartier program. Since 2009, numerous neighborhood development projects across France have been implemented under this designation. Achieving sustainable development goals has been closely linked to the provision of social housing, the development of public spaces, and the optimization of energy consumption. Four stages have been defined for the development of Ecoquartier projects: planning, delivery, lived experience, and evaluation. Despite a general consensus regarding the relative success of these projects, the nature and level of participatory design and management approaches remain unclear. In particular, the relationships among different stakeholders over time, and the ways in which they shape and reshape the production of space, require further clarification. More specifically, the role of public spaces, as one of the common instruments of participatory development in these projects, has remained to some extent unexplored. By examining the case study of Saint-Ouen, this research aims to clarify the relationship between participatory approaches throughout the process of designing and managing public spaces and the ways in which space is inhabited, allocated, used, and reproduced by the population for whom it is planned. Using a case study approach, data were collected and analyzed through interviews, field observations, and urban planning documents. In total, eight key stakeholders, along with a number of residents, were selected based on their roles and levels of involvement. The extracted themes were coded and categorized within the theoretical framework of participatory governance. Ecoquartier projects in France are initiatives that stem from the pursuit of realizing a national policy and ideal at the local scale. This creates logistical complexities that are a natural outcome of the multiplicity of stakeholders and the frameworks defining and controlling development. The realization of participation in these projects depends on transparent, continuous, and inclusive processes that incorporate residents' voices from the earliest stages and remain adaptable to the inevitable contextual changes inherent in urban projects. Accordingly, participation in Ecoquartier projects is understood as an ongoing and multilayered process that requires continuous adaptation, genuine inclusion, and effective coordination among all stakeholders within a holistic framework. In the Saint-Ouen Ecoquartier, challenges such as socioeconomic inequalities, logistical constraints, political orientations, and intrinsic project limitations have reduced the process to staged and episodic consultation rather than full participation. Consequently, partial participation has been achieved through development instruments such as social housing initiatives and neighborhood council meetings.

This study examines citizens’ perceptions of the 2019 Chilean social outburst using cross-sectional survey data from a stratified probabilistic sample of 809 adults in the Valparaíso Region, Chile. We analyse how environmental collective action willingness, political identification, attitudes toward democracy, and gender are associated with evaluations of the protest movement. Descriptive analyses and a General Linear Model (ANCOVA) were estimated, controlling for age, educational level, and participation in social organisations; multiple linear regression models were additionally used as robustness checks. The results indicate that environmental collective action willingness constitute the strongest and most robust correlate of positive evaluations of the social outburst, followed by political identification, with respondents identifying with the left reporting more favourable perceptions than those identifying with the right. In contrast, attitudes toward democracy and gender do not exhibit independent effects in the fully adjusted model, while age introduces a consistent generational gradient. Overall, the findings suggest that perceptions of the Chilean social outburst are structured primarily by dispositional orientations toward collective action and, to a lesser extent, by ideological positioning, rather than by normative evaluations of democracy.

Introduction. Mindfulness has been linked to emotional regulation and well-being, yet its role in emotional creativity and academic achievement remains insufficiently understood. Emotional creativity involves the ability to experience, express, and regulate emotions in novel, effective, and authentic ways, which may be particularly important for university students facing academic and emotional demands. Objectives. This study examined (a) the association between mindfulness and emotional creativity, (b) whether mindfulness predicts academic achievement directly and indirectly through emotional creativity, (c) the differential effects of mindfulness facets on emotional creativity components, (d) the moderating role of academic major, and (e) differences in mindfulness and emotional creativity between high-and low-achieving students. Methods. Participants were 662 undergraduate students from multiple academic majors. Students completed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI). Results. Observing and describing facets of mindfulness were positively associated with emotional preparedness, novelty, effectiveness/authenticity, and total emotional creativity. Acting with awareness and non-judging showed negative associations with selected emotional creativity components. Mindfulness did not directly predict GPA but had a significant indirect effect through emotional preparedness. Academic major moderated the mindfulness-emotional creativity relationship for Biology, Psychology, and French students. High-achieving students reported greater emotional preparedness, but not higher overall mindfulness or emotional creativity. Conclusions. Mindfulness contributes to emotional creativity in a facet-specific and contextdependent manner. Emotional preparedness serves as a key mechanism linking mindfulness to academic achievement. These findings highlight the importance of emotional awareness, clarity, and regulation in supporting both emotional development and academic success among university students.

The title compound, C7H8N2O2, formed by dehydration of the corresponding dicarboxamide, crystallizes as rectangular prisms. The molecules have a C2 axis of symmetry through the C atom bearing the methyl groups and the mid-point of the ring C-C bond, and the 1,3-dioxolane ring adopts the extreme twist conformation of the two possible with this symmetry. This brings the two nitrile groups nearest to a linear arrangement when the molecule is viewed along the ring C-C bond. The correct absolute configuration of the molecule was defined by that of the original starting material, (2R,3R)-tartaric acid. The packing is largely controlled by a number of C-HN interactions

Lectures by: Roald Hoffmann (chemist and poet); Paul West (novelist); Kenneth McClane (poet and essayist); Timothy DeVoogd (research psychologist); Diane Ackerman (poet and naturalist); Persis Drell (physicist); Vinay Ambegaokar (physicist); Steven Stucky (composer); Francis Moon (mechanical and aerospace engineer and sculptor); Byron Suber (dancer and choreographer); Victor Kord (artist); A.R. Ammons (poet) and James McConkey (writer); Thomas Eisner (chemical ecologist).

Con un enfoque cuantitativo, emplea un muestreo probabilístico y un instrumento validado con análisis factorial y confiabilidad. Los resultados demuestran que ambas variables influyen significativamente en la colaboración docente, aportando evidencias para mejorar la formación en habilidades socioemocionales y potenciar el trabajo en equipo en contextos educativos. Este valioso estudio contribuye a entender la influencia de rasgos emocionales en el desempeño profesional inicial.

This article explores how creativity and theological and missiological formation occur through congregational song within the Evangelical Christian Church of Minahasa (GMIM). It asks: how do social and theological systems influence the creation of congregational music in GMIM's local context? The study uses a multidisciplinary approach to apply the Systems Model of Creativity and Optimal Distinctiveness Theory alongside constructivist grounded theory methods. Field data includes interviews, observations, and document analysis. The case study focuses on Nyanyikanlah Nyanyian Baru bagi Tuhan (NNBT), a locally produced hymnal illustrating the interaction between creative individuals, institutional structures, and theological and cultural norms. Findings show that congregational songs serve as tools for theological participation and collective identity formation. Creativity arises not in isolation but through social negotiation, balancing community belonging with distinct expression. These insights guide Christian communities seeking to cultivate creative ecosystems that shape faith, worship, and local identity.

What is creative thought and how did it initially evolve in modern humans? Beginning with conceptual primitives of which all infants the world over possess barring severe pathology, we look at the evolution and function of two major systems of thought: pareidolia and an algorithmic, rule-based system. But the core of creativity first emerges in supramodular and metaphoric thought supported by systems of phenomenal, affective, and secondary consciousness as well as various mnemonic systems that sustain them. We examine the centrality of biological rhythms in creative self-expression, organizational and planning abilities; narrative (syntagmatic) and paradigmatic faculties along with their symbolic precursors; and the importance of embodied cognition in creative thought.

Resumen La literatura científica ha demostrado que la felicidad subjetiva está relacionada con el bienestar y es una construcción de múltiples factores que referencia las valoraciones de un sujeto sobre sus experiencias emocionales. Este artículo tiene como objetivo describir los niveles de felicidad de los estudiantes de odontología matriculados en una universidad federal en el interior de Paraíba. Se trata de un estudio de campo de carácter cuantitativo, descriptivo, con muestreo no probabilístico transversal. Participaron 79 estudiantes que estaban matriculados en el curso regular, siendo el 78% mujeres (n=62) y el 22% hombres (n=17)", se designó originalmente como Subjetivo Felicidad Escala (SHS). los estudiantes del primer período (M= 4,80; DE=1,00) tuvieron un nivel de felicidad más bajo que los del octavo período (M= 4,80; DE=1,00). Los datos analizados revelaron que los niveles de felicidad entre los sujetos que participaron en la investigación se mantuvo estable hasta la mitad del curso.

Film editing is not only a technical step after shooting. It is where story clarity, emotion, rhythm, and meaning are shaped. This paper looks at the editor’s creative power through key ideas from Walter Murch’s book In the Blink of an Eye. Using Murch’s thoughts on attention, “the blink,” and why we cut, I explain how editing guides the audience’s feelings and understanding, even when they do not notice the work. I also connect these ideas to practical decisions editors make, such as pacing, structure, performance selection, continuity, and the role of sound. Finally, I reflect on how an editor can save a film when the first assembly does not work, by rebuilding information flow and emotional timing. Overall, the paper shows that the editor is a storyteller who helps a film become watchable, understandable, and emotionally effective.

Considering creativity as a novel-and-useful performance outcome, this study explored the predictive effects of cognitive abilities (i.e., divergent thinking, intellectual aptitude as indicated by SAT scores) and Big Five personality traits on creativity and its two aspects (i.e., novelty and usefulness) in addition to the intercorrelations between creativity, novelty, and usefulness in a Minecraft building task. Regression analyses based on a college student sample (N = 285) revealed that Minecraft creativity was predicted by divergent thinking (b = .16, p , .01), SAT scores (b = .27, p , .001), and Openness to Experience (b = .23, p , .001), supporting the standing beliefs regarding individual antecedents of creativity. Such personal characteristics however, had different predictive effects on the two components of creativity, in that novelty was predicted by divergent thinking (b = .14, p , .01), SAT scores (b = .13, p , .01), and Openness to Experience (b = .27, p , .001) whereas usefulness was predicted by Openness to Experience only (b = .14, p , .01). In terms of the intercorrelations among creativity and its two subdimensions, novelty and usefulness were found to be highly correlated with each other (r = .72, p , .001) and were also both highly related to creativity (r novelty-creativity = .89, p , .001, and r usefulness-creativity = .65, p , .001, respectively). Implications of these results, several key avenues for future research, and study limitations are discussed.

This chapter examines the role of AI in the context of professional songwriting in popular music. Through interviews conducted with ten industry professionals, insights are gleaned and situated within the ongoing discourse about AI and music generation. Findings indicate that professional songwriters and producers harbour a spectrum of aesthetic, artistic, and ethical concerns alongside anticipations regarding creative possibilities. Consequently, the discourse reflects a transitional phase, underscoring the imperative for augmented artistic and practice-oriented research initiatives and the ensuing educational implications.

Aesthetic design has become an essential part of modern digital creativity. In today's visually driven world, people are naturally attracted to clean, beautiful, and well-organized designs. Aesthetic design is not only about making something look pretty; it is about creating a visual experience that feels balanced, meaningful, and emotionally pleasing.

In an era marked by the widespread acceptance of unfounded beliefs, the growing influence of the occult, and the commercial promotion of pseudo-science as a substitute for critical awareness, this paper examines the essential role of scientific inquiry in establishing trustworthy knowledge. It argues that genuine science remains the most effective and universally recognized method for obtaining valid and reliable information about the natural and social world. By emphasizing rigorous standards of evidence, verification, and reproducibility, the study distinguishes scientifically grounded knowledge from claims based on speculation, belief, or popular appeal. The paper further explores how the erosion of scientific literacy and critical reasoning contributes to public vulnerability to misinformation, and underscores the importance of reaffirming science as a framework for truth-seeking rather than opinion formation. Ultimately, the analysis highlights science as a powerful and necessary tool for discerning what can be known with confidence in a contemporary environment increasingly shaped by unsubstantiated and commercially driven narratives.

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This paper examines the evolving relationship between art and science by first addressing a foundational challenge: the ambiguity surrounding how both terms are commonly defined and applied. As interest grows in interdisciplinary collaboration between artistic and scientific practices, a meaningful discussion requires clear conceptual grounding. The study argues that art and science are not opposing domains, but complementary human endeavors rooted in a shared desire to understand, interpret, and communicate experiences of the world. While science seeks systematic explanation through observation and empirical methods, art functions as a human-centered mode of exploration that gives form to emotions, ideas, and perceptions through diverse creative processes. The paper further highlights how the broad use of “art” as a blanket term—often encompassing craft, design, and general acts of making—can obscure the distinct epistemic and expressive roles that artistic practice plays within interdisciplinary contexts. By clarifying definitions and emphasizing their shared human foundations, this work proposes a conceptual framework for understanding how art and science intersect as parallel, yet interdependent, ways of knowing and representing reality.

This case study examines a structured initiative aimed at standardizing content practices across remote and hybrid teams at Techsila LLC, a US-based IT consulting and offshoring company operating through globally distributed delivery models. As the organization scaled its services and expanded cross-functional collaboration between onshore and offshore teams, content creation increasingly became a shared responsibility across marketing, design, engineering, and leadership roles. While this distribution enabled speed and diversity of input, it also introduced fragmentation in tone, structure, messaging, and strategic intent. The purpose of this initiative was not to impose rigid templates or restrict creative autonomy, but to establish a shared content framework that could support consistency, clarity, and institutional identity across geographies and working models. The program focused on aligning teams around common principles of content strategy, editorial intent, governance, and workflow design, rather than relying solely on documentation or tooling. By approaching content standardization as an organizational capability rather than a compliance exercise, the initiative emphasized conceptual clarity, shared language, and contextual decision-making. It explored how distributed teams can balance flexibility with coherence, and how content systems can function as connective tissue between strategy, execution, and organizational culture in remote and hybrid environments.

This paper proposes an ontological model in which the meaning of life is not treated as an anthropocentric goal, value, or justification, but as a dynamic effect of a more fundamental process: the co-being of Monos and Logos. Monos and Logos are interpreted as isomorphic modes of difference-generation, enacted respectively in actual and possible modalities of being. It is argued that Logos, by introducing an excess of forms of difference, ontologically enriches reality rather than merely representing it. On this basis, meaning is redefined not as a teleological end, but as a potential difference between what is actual and what can be otherwise. Human existence is understood as a local node of co-being, in which this potential difference may be sustained, intensified, or collapsed. The paper thereby reframes the question of meaning as an ontological problem concerning the conditions under which being avoids collapse into self-identity and indifference.

Resumen: El objetivo de la presente investigacion es conocer la opinion de orientadores escolares acerca de la importancia de diferentes competencias profesionales y competencias emocionales con la finalidad de obtener informacion para mejorar los planes de estudio de estos profesionales. La presente investigacion se encuadra dentro de los estudios ex post facto retrospectivos. Se ha contado con una muestra de 203 orientadores de las etapas educativas de Infantil y Primaria y Educacion Secundaria. Los resultados indican que los orientadores conceden mayor importancia en el ejercicio profesional a las competencias profesionales: gestion de la convivencia, trabajo en equipo y competencias socio-relacionales. Por otro lado, en cuanto a las competencias emocionales los orientadores conceden mayor importancia a las competencias emocionales complementarias, posteriormente a las competencias emocionales interpersonales, y por ultimo, a las competencias emocionales intrapersonales. Finalmen...

Resumo: Este artigo analisa a criação do primeiro programa brasileiro de pósgraduação que integrou formalmente Música, Computação e Inteligência Artificial, desenvolvido no final da década de 1980 na Universidade de Brasília (UnB) sob liderança do pesquisador Aluizio Arcela. A partir de documentos institucionais da época, dos anais do Simpósio Internacional de Música e Informática (1988) e da produção científica envolvida, discute-se o impacto do programa na consolidação da área de música computacional no Brasil, sua estrutura curricular, seus fundamentos epistemológicos e sua relação com debates internacionais em modelagem sonora, processamento espectral e sistemas inteligentes. O estudo busca reposicionar o papel pioneiro da UnB no cenário da pesquisa em música e IA no país.

X SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL DE MÚSICA DA AMAZÔNIA
SIMA 2025 - Convergências Musicais entre Amazônia e Cerrado
13 a 17 de outubro de 2025
ANAIS
Proceedings of the X SIMA –
International Symposium on Music in the Amazon
ISSN 2447-9810
Anselmo Guerra (Org)

The placebo effect is usually studied in clinical settings for decreasing negative symptoms such as pain, depression and anxiety. There is interest in exploring the placebo effect also outside the clinic, for enhancing positive aspects of performance or cognition. Several studies indicate that placebo can enhance cognitive abilities including memory, implicit learning and general knowledge. Here, we ask whether placebo can enhance creativity, an important aspect of human cognition. Subjects were randomly assigned to a control group who smelled and rated an odorant (n = 45), and a placebo group who were treated identically but were also told that the odorant increases creativity and reduces inhibitions (n = 45). Subjects completed a recently developed automated test for creativity, the creative foraging game (CFG), and a randomly chosen subset (n = 57) also completed two manual standardized creativity tests, the alternate uses test (AUT) and the Torrance test (TTCT). In all three tests, participants were asked to create as many original solutions and were scored for originality, flexibility and fluency. The placebo group showed higher originality than the control group both in the CFG (p<0.04, effect size = 0.5) and in the AUT (p<0.05, effect size = 0.4), but not in the Torrance test. The placebo group also found more shapes outside of the standard categories found by a set of 100 CFG players in a previous study, a feature termed out-of-the-boxness (p<0.01, effect size = 0.6). The findings indicate that placebo can enhance the originality aspect of creativity. This strengthens the view that placebo can be used not only to reduce negative clinical symptoms, but also to enhance positive aspects of cognition. Furthermore, we find that the impact of placebo on creativity can be tested by CFG, which can quantify multiple aspects of

Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development is a novel and appropriate attempt to synthesize various threads on the nature of reasoning and the nature of creative thinking to investigate their interplay and educational impact. Such general questions that are posed are: To what extent do creativity and imagination decline in childhood?,, Is there something about the development of one kind of thinking that undermines imaginative and creative thinking?, What is the role of domain knowledge in creative thinking?, and How does the process of schooling affect creative thinking skills?. A variety of perspectives are brought to bear on the relationships among creativity, reason, knowledge, and schooling. The list of contributors is impressive, as is the scope. The reader will walk away from the book realizing that the general questions the book hopes to answer are very complex, and riddled with many caveats. The first part of the book is theoretical in nature, and includes empirical res...

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