<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Variation, noise, inhibition failure, competing... > Variation, noise, inhibition failure, competing attractors, exploratory impulses, and occasional breakdowns in ordinary behavioral control can produce departures that appear inefficient or pathological at one scale while opening entirely new adaptive possibilities at another. We call this — creativity. **Source:** [[breakouts/Human Machine|Human Machine]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->