... problem-solving come in as the heuristic search through the solution space for appropriate results. Of course, this is a very naïve model but I would like to argue that the distinction that it captures has phenomenological basis in different kinds of attention and different modes of consciousness involved, and we find converging lines of evidence for this view in computational, neuropsychological, and clinical research. I will try to develop and refine this model based on the literature reviewed below with respect to creativity as generation of novel solutions. First of all, even semantically, "both novel and appropriate" part of the definition of creativity seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron. If a solution is truly innovative in a sense that nobody produced it before, often modifying or completely overthrowing what has been established before it (e.g. the theory of evolution), how do we judge its appropriateness? These solutions are often ...

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