Further Reading

Boden and Wiggins develop conceptual-space accounts of combinational, exploratory, and transformational creativity [ Boden , 2004 , Wiggins , 2006 ] . Palm and Barto and colleagues treat novelty, information, surprise, and intrinsic motivation; Abraham surveys cognitive and neuroscientific accounts, Sawyer connects individual cognition to collaborative and cultural processes, and Wilson offers a broader evolutionary and humanistic perspective [ Palm , 2012 , Barto et al. , 2013 , Abraham , 2018 , Sawyer , 2012 , Wilson , 2018 ] . Miller surveys computer-enabled creative practice across artistic media before the frontier-model era [ Miller , 2019 ] . Piaget’s developmental theory and Drescher’s constructivist implementation supply the assimilation–accommodation lineage [ Piaget , 1952 , 1954 , Piaget and Inhelder , 1974 , Piaget , 1985 , Drescher , 1986 , 1991 ] . Ritchie and Jordanous address the evaluation of creative programs [ Ritchie , 2007 , Jordanous , 2012 ] .

For computational scientific discovery, see Langley and colleagues, Schmidt and Lipson, AI Feynman, and the Robot Scientist [ Langley et al. , 1987 , Schmidt and Lipson , 2009 , Udrescu and Tegmark , 2020 , King et al. , 2009 ] . The Association for Computational Creativity maintains a broad bibliography and ICCC proceedings [ Association for Computational Creativity , 2026b , 2026a ] . Von Neumann supplies the foundational self-reproducing-automata construction; Wolfram and Hedlund develop the simple-program and shift-equivariant viewpoints [ von Neumann , 1966 , Wolfram , 2002 , Hedlund , 1969 ] . Dawkins’s “blind watchmaker” supplies the anti-teleological biological comparison [ Dawkins , 1986 ] . For LLM-enabled science, see Zheng and colleagues, the SDE benchmark, Evo 2, and Biomni [ Zheng et al. , 2025 , HKUST KnowComp , 2026 , Song et al. , 2025 , Brixi et al. , 2025 , Huang et al. , 2025 ] . Chomsky, McCarthy, and Zahavy motivate the structural critique; Wang and Ma supply a constructed-language counterpoint [ Chomsky et al. , 2023 , McCarthy , 2007 , Zahavy , 2026 , Wang and Ma , 2026 ] .