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      The Big Bang of Originality and Effectiveness: A Dynamic Creativity Framework and Its Application to Scientific Missions

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          This article introduces a theoretical framework to conceptualize the dynamics of the phenomenon of creativity, which is then applied to the specific case of scientific missions for the exploration of the universe. Static definitions of creativity are insufficient for this purpose, as they fail to describe states of creative inconclusiveness as well as the time and culture-dependent estimation of the value of the outcomes of a creative process; therefore, a dynamic definition of creativity is introduced, justified, and adopted to build a dynamic creativity framework. Within this framework, creativity episodes are shown to be mutually interconnected through several mechanisms (past and future concatenation, estimation, and exaptation), to form a dynamic universal creativity process (DUCP), the beginning of which can be traced back to the Big Bang of our universe. The DUCP entails several layers of complexity (material, biological, sociocultural, and artificial), showing that creativity is not only a psychological construct for humans but rather a unifying cosmological principle. Context embeddedness is discussed in-depth, introducing a taxonomy based on the concepts of tightness and looseness as applied to conceptual space and time. This theoretical framework is, then, applied to the discussion of the design, realization, and operations of scientific missions for the exploration of the universe, taking as a reference the terminology adopted by the European Space Agency.

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              Human evolutionary scholars have long supposed that the earliest stone tools were made by the genus Homo and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. New fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has identified evidence of much earlier hominin technological behaviour. We report the discovery of Lomekwi 3, a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site where in situ stone artefacts occur in spatiotemporal association with Pliocene hominin fossils in a wooded palaeoenvironment. The Lomekwi 3 knappers, with a developing understanding of stone's fracture properties, combined core reduction with battering activities. Given the implications of the Lomekwi 3 assemblage for models aiming to converge environmental change, hominin evolution and technological origins, we propose for it the name 'Lomekwian', which predates the Oldowan by 700,000 years and marks a new beginning to the known archaeological record.
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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                18 September 2020
                2020
                : 11
                : 575067
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, Marconi Institute for Creativity, University of Bologna , Bologna, Italy
                [2] 2Laboratoire de Psychologie et d’Ergonomie Appliquée, Université de Paris and Université Gustave Eiffel , Paris, France
                Author notes

                Edited by: Henderika de Vries, Yale University, United States

                Reviewed by: Vlad Petre Glaveanu, Aalborg University, Denmark; Hansika Kapoor, Monk Prayogshala, India

                *Correspondence: Giovanni Emanuele Corazza, giovanni.corazza@ 123456unibo.it

                This article was submitted to Performance Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575067
                7530606
                9b37c5a4-187f-49db-b0fc-e20d01939d75
                Copyright © 2020 Corazza and Lubart.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 23 June 2020
                : 28 August 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 1, Equations: 0, References: 73, Pages: 11, Words: 10137
                Categories
                Psychology
                Hypothesis and Theory

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                creativity,dynamic universal creative process,cosmology,scientific missions for space exploration,tightness and looseness,definition of creativity

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