>>18823292the only real answer incoming, prepare yourself for the meaning of life
we've learned a lot from simulating complex networks. You can imagine a bunch of nodes talking to each other right? If these three are true, this one is false, and so on. So populate a big matrix of nodes and rules for those nodes, initialize them to a random state. Now play this network out in discrete time, flipping values according to the rules at each time step.
One lever we have to affect its behavior is how many "rules" or "connections" each node has to others. Fewer avg connections = more orderly. More average connections = more chaotic -- every node flipping values every time step. So what does this mean for behavior?
The network might be trying to accomplish a particular task, so we can draw a "fitness landscape" of how good it is at doing that task(say, processing some nodes that receive input from the outside world into some output nodes that are connected back to the outside world).
The more cross-connected the network is, the more sets of possible behaviors it explores. Picture a big oval drawn on the 3d graph. In some senses it is 'creative' in that it explores a large amount of territory but the "resolution" is poor -- it can't 'see' the impossibly tall and narrow peaks that represent the optimal.
Every complex system behaves by these rules, because they must search for solutions in this way. This goes on at every level in every cell. Life originated with this game, it is the meaning of life. The a portion of the cross connected primordial soup was violated by a small lipid bilayer and became life; you were born cross connected, and as you mature you do nothing but pare down and strengthen connections as a part of your search for fitness as you try to find taller, narrower peaks.
Final answer: 'creative' network states are more chaotic, perturbable by mathematical necessity. The art hoe looks to connect to as many sensations as possible to enhance her creative search.
