Is creativity computable? In an era in which artificial systems can generate novel music, poetry, and art with superhuman ease, the concept of creativity itself demands re-examination. If machines can produce artifacts that arouse awe and meaning in humans, then the elusive and ill-defined concept of creativity can no longer be treated as an exclusively human phenomenon.

My project seeks to investigate the limitations of computational, or so-called, combinatorial creativity. I wish to approach the question from a holistic, interdisciplinary perspective, blending neuroscience, psychology, mathematics, and philosophy to gain insights into the origins of creative ideas in humans, examining hidden and mystical triggers for creative ideas such as consciousness, intuition, embodied experiences, and the inner workings of the psyche in order to examine to what extent these are computable by machine algorithms.

I also plan to mathematically model human creativity as a stochastic process to characterize creativity as a balance between order and chaos: a probabilistic exploration of a space of possibilities in a random yet controlled manner. Ultimately, my project aims to contribute to a more precise and contemporary definition of creativity that remains robust in the face of artificial intelligence.