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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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What Are Eschers?

Most of what our visual system does is to eliminate repetitive patterns when we see them. In every Escher, there are unusual patterns, and those completely disappear to us. What Eschers do is they invert the relationship between signal and noise. And you may like Eschers and you may not. That's not the point. Today we're not talking about taste in particular creative acts. What we're trying to identify here are the rules and mechanisms of what constitutes something creative and why it's creative.

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