Creative space : models of creative processes for the knowledge civilization age

Creative Space summarizes and integrates the various up-to-date approaches of computational intelligence to knowledge and technology creation including the specific novel feature of utilizing the creative abilities of the human mind, such as tacit knowledge, emotions and instincts, and intuition. It analyzes several important approaches of this new paradigm such as the Shinayakana Systems Approach, the organizational knowledge creation theory, in particular SECI Spiral, and the Rational Theory of Intuition - resulting in the concept of Creative Space. This monograph presents and analyzes in detail this new concept together with its ontology - the list and meanings of the analyzed nodes of this space and of the character of transitions linking these nodes.

1 Preliminaries	p. 1
1.1 Summary	p. 1
1.2 The Problem of Knowledge and Technology Creation Versus the Problem of Their Justification and Verification	p. 2
1.3 Short Review of the History of Knowledge Justification and Verification Approaches	p. 4
1.4 New Approaches to the Problem of Knowledge and Technology Creation	p. 9
1.5 The Challenge of New Informational and Knowledge Civilization Era	p. 12
1.6 The Need of a New Understanding of the World	p. 15
1.7 The Challenge to Epistemology	p. 21
1.8 The Contents of this Book and Related Issues	p. 22
Part I Models of Creative Processes
2 Rational Theory of Intuition and Its Epistemological Consequences	p. 27
2.1 Summary	p. 27
2.2 Rationality versus Intuition	p. 27
2.3 The Relative Complexity of Processing Visual and Verbal Information	p. 32
2.4 The Dual Thought Experiment	p. 34
2.5 The Evolutionary Rational Definition of Intuition	p. 36
2.6 First Validation Tests of the Rational Theory of Intuition	p. 37
2.7 The Role of Language and Tradition in the Evolution of Human Civilization	p. 40
2.8 The Limitations of Language	p. 42
2.9 The Civilization Heritage of Humanity and Its Constitutive Parts	p. 43
2.10 Ontological and Epistemological Consequences	p. 46
2.11 The Problem of Truth and Objectivity	p. 48
2.12 The Problem of Creativity	p. 51
2.13 Intuitive Decisions	p. 53
2.14 Creative Intuitive Processes	p. 55
2.15 Relations to Far East Philosophy and to Psychology of Subconscious and Unconscious	p. 56
2.16 Practical Aspects of Intuition	p. 57
3 Basic Dimensions of Creative Space	p. 59
3.1 Summary	p. 59
3.2 The Concepts of Knowledge and Technology	p. 60
3.3 SECI Spiral	p. 68
3.4 The Concept of Creative Space	p. 75
3.5 Basic Transitions in Creative Space	p. 79
3.6 New Spirals of Creative Processes	p. 81
3.7 Conditions for Stimulating Scientific Debate and Final Remarks	p. 87
4 Further Dimensions of Creative Space	p. 91
4.1 Summary	p. 91
4.2 Pentagram System	p. 92
4.3 Imagination	p. 95
4.4 Intervention	p. 98
4.5 Integration	p. 100
4.6 Pentagram System, Shinayakana Systems Approach and Critical Systems Thinking	p. 103
4.7 Basic versus Applied Research	p. 107
4.8 Constructivist versus Objectivist View of Reality	p. 109
4.9 Hermeneutic Reflection and Triple Helix of Normal Knowledge Creation	p. 115
4.10 Cross-Cultural and Organizational Knowledge Creation	p. 118
4.11 Dimensions of Creative Space: Concluding Remarks	p. 122
Part II Issues of Knowledge Civilization Age
5 A Vision of New Civilization Era	p. 127
5.1 Summary	p. 127
5.2 The Importance of Vision on the Verge of a New Civilization Era	p. 127
5.3 Concepts and Ideas Leading to the Cultural Platform of the New Civilization Era	p. 129
5.4 Current Perceptions of the Nature of the New Era	p. 137
5.5 The Vision: What Problems of Humanity Should We Solve?	p. 139
5.6 Main Megatrends of the New Era	p. 142
5.7 Impacts of Digital and Network Technology	p. 147
5.8 Change in Economic Behavior and in Economics	p. 150
5.9 Change in Social Behavior and in Sociology	p. 152
5.10 Main Conflicts of the Coming Era	p. 156
5.11 Main Stages of the Coming Era and Our Essential Obligations	p. 157
6 A New Role of Systems Science: Informed Systems Approach	p. 161
6.1 Summary	p. 161
6.2 The Diversity of Systemic Approaches	p. 162
6.3 Soft Perspective of the History of Systems Science; Theorizing Systems Methodologies Across Cultures	p. 169
Soft Versus Hard Systems Thinking	p. 171
Critical Systems Thinking/Critical Systems Practice (CST/CSP)	p. 172
Unbounded Systems Thinking (UST)	p. 176
The Oriental Perspective: Shinayakana and WSR	p. 179
6.4 Hard Perspective of the History of Systems Science	p. 184
Computer Science, Logics and Computer Intelligence	p. 185
Dynamic Systems, Chaos and Complexity Theory	p. 189
Operational Research and Optimization	p. 192
Modeling, Computational Science, Decision Support, Computer-Man Interaction	p. 196
6.5 Synergy and Emergence	p. 199
6.6 A New Definition of Systems Science	p. 203
6.7 Three Principles of Integrated Perspective and Fields of Knowledge Related to the New Paradigm	p. 205
6.8 The New Challenge: Intercultural Synthesis	p. 210
6.9 Conclusions: Informed, Creative Systemic Approach	p. 214
Part III Towards Knowledge and Technology Creation Support
7 Decision Support versus Knowledge Creation Support	p. 219
7.1 Summary	p. 219
7.2 Decision Automation versus Computerized Decision Support	p. 220
7.3 The Meaning and History of Decision Support	p. 222
7.4 Current Status of Decision Support	p. 229
7.5 The Difference and Similarities Between Decision Support and Creativity Support	p. 234
7.6 Key Objects for Creativity Support	p. 235
7.7 The Concept of a Creative Environment	p. 243
7.8 Existing and Needed Creative Environments	p. 244
Web Knowledge Acquisition	p. 245
Debating	p. 246
Experiment Design and Support	p. 246
Virtual Laboratories	p. 247
Road-mapping	p. 247
Brainstorming	p. 248
Gaming	p. 248
Distance Learning and Teaching	p. 249
7.9 Concluding Comments	p. 249
8 Conclusions	p. 251
References	p. 263
Index	p. 281

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