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Scientific Genius, Creativity, and Insight

Major Questions  What is science?  What is genius?  What is creativity?  What is insight?  How do these all fit together?

What is science?  Science versus art  Hard versus soft sciences  Disciplinary hierarchies: physical, biological, and social sciences, humanities and the arts

What is genius?  Superlative intelligence? High IQ? >130? >140? >? But …

What is genius?  Superlative intelligence?  Prodigious performance? Examples  Chess champion?  Violin virtuoso?  Olympic athlete? Mathematical prodigy?  e.g. Vanderbilt  Terence Tao

What is genius?  Superlative intelligence?  Prodigious performance?  Extraordinary achievement? Leadership? Creativity?

What is creativity?  What are the criteria? Two or three?  How are the criteria assessed? Qualitative or quantitative?  How are the assessments combined? Additive or multiplicative?  Who makes the assessments? Personal or consensual?

What is creativity?  What are the criteria? Two or three? Two criteria  Novel or original  Useful or valuable Three criteria  Original  Useful or valuable  Surprising or nonobvious Hence, diminished role for domain-specific expertise

What is creativity?  How are the criteria assessed? Qualitative or quantitative? Qualitative: Yes/No? Quantitative:  Interval scale? Hence, tradeoffs  Ratio scale? True zero point? Proportion/probability?

What is creativity?  How are the assessments combined? Additive or multiplicative? Additive:  e.g. originality + usefulness? → Compensatory tradeoffs → Normal distribution Multiplicative:  e.g., originality X usefulness → Criterion “veto power” → Skewed distribution

What is creativity?  Who makes the assessments? Personal or consensual? Personal: Little-c creativity Consensual: Big-C Creativity  Hence, personal-consensual mismatch Personal > consensual Personal < consensual Personal ≈ consensual  Latter more common in high-consensus fields such as the hard sciences

What is insight?  Distinctions: Algorithmic versus heuristic tasks Reasonable versus unreasonable problems Obvious versus surprising ideas

What is insight?  Processes and procedures: Incubation Divergent thinking Remote association Defocused attention Playful tinkering

How do these all fit together?  The scientific genius is someone who generates Big-C ideas that are consensually original, useful, and surprising  The last criterion indicates that the ideas require genuine insight rather than the straightforward application of domain-specific expertise  e.g.’s …