Is evolution creative?

author = "P. J. Bentley",

title = "Is evolution creative?",

booktitle = "Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems",

year = "1999",

editor = "P. J. Bentley and D. Corne",

pages = "28--34",

address = "Edinburgh",

publisher = "The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour",

keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, gades, CE, sussex, System, systems",

ISBN = "1-902956-03-6",

URL = "

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Bentley/BEC6.pdf",

publicationstatus = "published",

size = "7 pages",

abstract = "Can evolution demonstrate some of the properties of creativity? This paper argues that it can, and provides examples which the author feels illustrate some of the awesome power and feats of design which resemble creativity. Is evolution, then, truly creative? This is clearly a much harder question, for it requires a definition of creativity that most subjective and controversial of words. This paper explores and discusses various aspects of creativity, attempting to determine to what extent evolution satisfies each definition. The paper ends by summarising the discussion, and presenting amalgamations of four different worldviews.",

notes = "The AISB'99 Convention took place in March 1999, hosted jointly by the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art",