| Creativity is one of the most essential and special cognitive abilities of human beings,and good creativity has a huge role in promoting personal development and social progress,and it is one of the most important traits in modern society.For this reason,creativity is a key object of research in disciplines such as computer science,psychology,and education.For a long time,some aspects of creativity have been studied in the philosophy,but a complete and systematic study was not formed until the middle of the last century,when creativity was formally considered as an object of study in the philosophical dimension.Despite its late start,the study of creativity in philosophy has already produced many research results,which are very important for understanding human reason and have unique inspirational effects for research in other disciplines.All these phenomena show that the study of creativity should not lack the participation of philosophy.There are many different types of creativity,and different scholars have different definitions of creativity.Among them.Mundane creativity is considered to be one of the most basic forms of human creativity,any person with full cognitive ability has mundane creativity.Therefore,the question of how to explain the genetic and development of mundane creativity becomes very important,as the most basic form of creativity,which is the cornerstone of other types of creativity forms,as well as the most fundamental part of human cognitive abilities.The problem of the genesis of mundane creativity contains a series of sub-problems,such as what is the essence of mundane creativity? What are its manifestations? Are the mechanisms of action of these manifestations the same? Does mundane creativity have an internal structure,etc.? Explaining the genesis of mundane creativity is related to the understanding of human reasoning,which has great implications for creativity research,human intelligence and artificial intelligence.The current mainstream proposal is to explain the genesis of mundane creativity based on a symbolic operating system of amodal symbols,but there are many problems with this proposal.Scholars such as Prinz and Barsalou have proposed a theory of perceptual symbols based on the new empirical theory,which can explain the genesis of mundane creativity and provide a new possibility to solve this problem.In this paper,we analyze the nature of mundane creativity,its manifestations,and its specific causes,processes,and dynamics through a comparative study of perceptual symbols theory and amodal symbols theory,and make an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses,the internal logic,and the future development of the two approaches.This paper is divided into the following chapters: the first chapter is the introduction,which mainly describes the background and significance of this paper,the current situation of domestic and foreign research,and the research method and research path used in this paper;the second chapter is the conceptual analysis of mundane creativity and the connotation of the problem of geneticist,which mainly explores the essence of creativity from the perspective of etymology,and analyzes the connotation of mundane creativity from the perspective of taxonomy.The third section elaborates the specific connotations of the three manifestations of mundane creativity and the reasons why they belong to mundane creativity;the fourth section analyzes in detail the specific contents of perceptual sign theory and non-modal sign theory,as well as their explanatory models of mundane creativity.The fourth section analyzes in detail the details of perceptual symbols theory and amodal symbols theory,as well as their explanatory models of mundane creativity,and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the two models,showing the new possibilities contained in perceptual symbols theory through comparative studies.It should be clear that Prinz and Barsalou’s model of perceptual symbol theory is not a definite and perfect model to solve the problem of the genesis of mundane creativity,but it is a highly innovative theoretical attempt,and the academic value and inspiration contained in it are selfevident.New explorations and attempts must be made based on in-depth research before we can gain a deeper understanding of human cognitive abilities. |