Hierarchical Representations of Behavior for Efficient Creative Search

Options Results Experiments Creative Search We adopt a Darwinian view of creativity, in which creative products are • assembled through a sequential decision process in a trial-and-error fashion. This search process consists of trajectories through the space of creative • products and selective retention of highly-valued results (and the means for constructing them). An explict population is not maintained, however. Rather, an implict “pop• ulation” of potential creative products exists at a given time, any member of which can be realized via some behavioral operator. One “member” of each “population” is thus selected at each step given the • current product (context), and a new “population” results at the next step.