Creativity: Linchpin in the Quest for a Viable Theory of Cultural\n Evolution
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Abstract
This paper outlines the implications of neural-level accounts of insight, and\nmodels of the conceptual interactions that underlie creativity, for a theory of\ncultural evolution. Since elements of human culture exhibit cumulative,\nadaptive, open-ended change, it seems reasonable to view culture as an\nevolutionary process, one fueled by creativity. Associative memory models of\ncreativity and mathematical models of how concepts combine and transform\nthrough interaction with a context, support a view of creativity that is\nincompatible with a Darwinian (selectionist) framework for cultural evolution,\nbut compatible with a non-Darwinian (Self-Other Reorganization) framework. A\ntheory of cultural evolution in which creativity is centre stage could provide\nthe kind of integrative framework for the behavioral sciences that Darwin\nprovided for the life sciences.\n
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it