[zeptian]

These kind of studies are dubious. The PhD report could have been generated by an LLM in about a day, and no one would know any better.

It works like this:

Take any hypothesis. And have a lot of verbiage around it with dubious experiments to "statistically" validate it. and write a giant report which would eventually turn into a book.

Steve Pinker and his likes excel in this kind of stuff. Psychology/Sociology and sometimes economics are filled with these sorts of studies.

It is more persuation than science.

And one could could argue that science itself is a certain kind of persuation.

[jeffreyrogers]

Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, reveals your prejudice against social science, and could be copied and pasted anytime a non-rigorous subject comes up. I'm actually interested in criticisms of this work, but your comment doesn't even rise to that level.

[zeptian]

guilty as charged !

But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in this text at all.

Again, since this is about persuation, it is what the reader wants to believe.

[ysofunny]

I found that the line "science is a certain kind of persuassion" quite informative. I was not aware of such a skeptical thread of thought near science