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Human Creativity Emerging and Enduring Through Embodied–Collective Intelligence

2025-10-02

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<p>Creativity in human societies is sustained not by isolated minds but by embodied, collective intelligence. Using music as a model system, we show that creativity rests on the dynamic tuning of uncertainty: moderate, time-varying surprise—often felt as internal bodily sensations—sparks exploration, while group synchrony stabilizes what is new. Because creativity itself is value-neutral, its fate depends on the c...

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Literature Corpus work: 49e87ba6-2d3f-5fcd-b26b-dbcbfedc6e88
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7t5zr_v1

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