Creative Evolutionary Systems

2 Recognizability of the Idea" The Evolutionary Process of Argenia

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RECOGN IZABI LITY, IDENTITY, AN D COM PLEXITY

We build up our recognizing codes since infancy. We learn, from birth, to recog-

nize everything in the world, to recognize a chair among other similar objects.

We become able to build our own peculiar idea of a chair. When we are in front

of a chair that we have never seen before, even though this shape is new and dif-

ferent from any other known chair, we are still able to recognize it as a chair.

Likewise, if we are in front of a painting by van Gogh that we have never seen be-

fore, ...