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		TheOtherHobbes on Feb 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Expertise Is 'Just' Pattern Matching Creativity is not just pattern matching. The amount of creativity required for expertise in various domains varies from "some" to "really quite a lot."

Psyladine on Feb 27, 2020 [–]

Creativity is absolutely pattern matching. We're not creative as much as we are marvellous recombinators.

If a creative were asked what their process is, wouldn't they have to honestly answer, "I don't know yet, but I'll know it when I see it"?

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