The Foundations of Creativity: Human Inquiry Explained Through the Neuro-Multimodality of Abduction

This chapter offers arguments in favor of a morphological characterization of situated abductive processes in perception, considering them as adaptation mechanisms to the varieties of experience. The mechanism that has been analyzed in this essay is the creativity. The thesis defended in this chapter is that the human being maintains a constant hypothetical openness to adapt to the uncertainty of the future. Characterizing creative processes using abduction means analyzing this phenomenon from morphological bases. Therefore, the inevitability of creativity defended in this chapter is situated in the neurochemical and morphological bases of perception to characterize the adaptive dimension of creativity through abduction. The starting point of this proposal is based on the EC-Model of abduction: a contextualized interpretation of classical pragmatism from the naturalization of cognitive processes. Abduction is proposed as the simple mechanism of hypothesis generation and its selection. This mechanism can be considered present in all degrees of human experience: the generation of epistemic content is grounded in natural biologically based adaptive processes. Therefore, there is a coupling between embodied mechanism of cognition and sociocultural values. Because of its fundamental value, the implementation of abductive mechanisms in Machine Learning systems is explored, especially in most recent Deep Learning models.