It seems fitting to speak about a “creative” effort only when the outcome leads to surprise. The step which is taken exceeds the limits of the predictable. Then there is a problem of reconstruction: a clever outsider who tries to find out how it was done may find it very difficult to retrace the path which has been followed.
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Halldén, S. (1997). Creativity and the Evolutionary Viewpoint. In The Complexity of Creativity (pp. 17–22). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8788-4_3
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