Just another reminder that, once you learn about reification, it pops up everywhere. Us humans have a horrible habit of taking abstract concepts and gradually,

Just another reminder that, once you learn about reification, it pops up everywhere. Us humans have a horrible habit of taking abstract concepts and gradually, as we use them over time, starting to believe the words associated with the concepts (necessarily constrained relational mental pictures) are like real, tangible, denotable things that exist, like an apple or a ball. I wouldn't be surprised if the book reviewed in the article is 100% correct and that the concept of creativity is just that, and it's really improper to think of it like some possessed "trait". I also wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of people never learn or realize this and go on treating it as though it's some inherited special something. That's really how it is with all psychological concepts. Intelligence and mind emerge in an environment they aren't some weird, immutable properties you are or aren't born with. We are a mixture of genetic templating and environmental feedback and constant adaptation. This is why IQ tests are moronic. This is also why it's silly to ask if machines "think". Cognitive systems think. Humans and a variety of other organisms and tools form cognitive systems. We are nothing without our inputs and milieu.