Is There a Connection Between Consciousness and Creativity?

We are entities that learn. We cannot switch that capacity off, but we do seem to have the capacity to learn how to learn while doing other things we have already learned. This happens when we are on so-called autopilot. Our creativity and consciousness is elsewhere for a time, working on other problems for which we do not know solutions in that particular area. It is just not possible in the AGI debate to think we could ever build a system that is truly creative, but simultaneously unconscious. A message needs to be sent quicksmart to take over consciousness again. Why? Because we need some creative thinking, as I have flagged.