COMMENTARIES: Why the Creative Process Is Not Darwinian: Comment on "The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants"

Simonton (2006) makes the unwarranted assumption that nonmonotonicity a Darwinian view of creativity. Darwin's theory of natural selection motivated by a paradox that has no equivalent in creative thought: the of how change accumulates when acquired traits are not inherited. To a process of cumulative change in which acquired traits are retained outside of the scope of the theory of natural selection. Even the early of life itself (prior to genetically mediated template replication) be described by natural selection. Specifically, natural selection describe change of state that involves horizontal (Lamarckian) exchange, occurs through interaction with an incompletely specified context. It cannot change wherein variants are evaluated sequentially, and wherein this can itself change the state space and/or fitness function, because two variants are ever evaluated according to the same selection criterion. are also raised as to the methodology used in Simonton's study.