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Anthony Brandt is a composer and professor of music at Rice University, focusing on creativity and the intersection of art and science.
Known for: The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
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The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
The Runaway Species explores the neuroscience and psychology of human creativity, examining how the brain recombines existing ideas to generate innovation. Eagleman and Brandt draw from art, science, and technology to show that creativity is not a mysterious gift but a fundamental human trait that drives progress and adaptation.
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The Brain’s Recombination Process
Our brains are remix machines. Every creative act begins with existing elements, not ex nihilo invention. The human cortex evolved not to copy reality but to reinterpret it — to detect patterns and modify them. What’s fascinating is that even our most revolutionary breakthroughs draw from prior expe...
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Bending
Bending is the art of transformation within boundaries. It’s when we take a familiar idea and stretch it to produce something novel. Think of the way a composer rearranges a classical motif into jazz, or how an engineer designs a more aerodynamic version of an airplane wing. The origin remains visib...
From The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
About Anthony Brandt
Anthony Brandt is a composer and professor of music at Rice University, focusing on creativity and the intersection of art and science.
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