How Could a Copycat Ever be Creative?

Can there be any doubt that to call someone a ‘copycat’ is a taunt? Surely, copycats do nothing more than mechanical mimicry. Surely, a copycat could never be creative. After all, how could merely doing the same thing as someone else ever be original?

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Published inArtificial Intelligence and Creativity pp. 405 - 424
Main Author Hofstadter, Douglas
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994
SeriesStudies in Cognitive Systems
Subjects
Emergency Measure
Paradigm Shift
Perceptual Reversal
Tacit Assumption
Usual Resistance
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Summary:Can there be any doubt that to call someone a ‘copycat’ is a taunt? Surely, copycats do nothing more than mechanical mimicry. Surely, a copycat could never be creative. After all, how could merely doing the same thing as someone else ever be original?
ISBN:9048144574
9789048144570
ISSN:0924-0780
DOI:10.1007/978-94-017-0793-0_28