Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity
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Title:Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity
Abstract:"Integrative" solutions are widely praised but rarely defined: we lack an operational way to tell a genuine integration -- one that makes the world cheaper to describe -- from a tidy re-description. Building on the lineage that
treats creativity and intelligence as compression, we give such a criterion for creative integration (CI): the resolution of a real conflict between A and B is CI if and only if, under a fixed description language, the description
length strictly shrinks (C = L_pre/L_post > 1), with the reduction located in the conflict itself. We make the judgment decidable through four binary, conjunctive gates, and we fix its extension through a taxonomy of
pseudo-integration that names and rejects the look-alikes. We back the criterion with a curated, multi-domain corpus and -- crucially -- validate it not by human inter-rater agreement but by four falsifiable tests it could fail: an
independent computational check, discrimination against hard negatives, out-of-sample prediction, and description-language robustness; all pass with margin. The contribution is not "creativity is compression" but its decidability,
discrimination, and corpus: on this account, what makes a move genuinely creative -- rather than merely novel -- is that it compresses a conflict, with novelty and value as downstream symptoms; whether all creativity is so
constituted we state as an explicit conjecture. We claim only the sign of C-1; we judge, not generate. The result is a citable primitive for a broader program.
| Comments: | 18 pages, 1 figure |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| ACM classes: | I.2.7; I.2.0; F.4.1 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.13977 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.13977v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.13977
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