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Hyperassociativity in the AI Era: Why Wide Semantic Leaps Are Becoming a Rare Human Skill
Composition IV / Wassily Kandinsky / 1911 Kandinsky sought to express inner spiritual necessity through non-representational forms that force viewers to forge their own distant connections between colour, shape, and emotion. In an era dominated by large language models that excel at close-range pattern completion, one distinctly human cognitive trait is quietly diminishing: hyperassociativity - the capacity to rapidly activate and connect concepts across vast semantic distan
Bisociation: The Hidden Engine of Human Creativity in an AI-Dominated World
In the quiet mechanics of the mind, where ideas collide like distant stars in a vast conceptual galaxy, bisociation emerges as a fundamental process that AI cannot replicate. Coined by Arthur Koestler in his 1964 work The Act of Creation, bisociation describes the sudden intersection of two unrelated frames of reference - think of humor arising when a scientific principle unexpectedly merges with a domestic mishap, or innovation sparking from blending ancient philosophy with
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