<!-- 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]], [[working/LEARNING TO WRITE AS BRYANT|LEARNING TO WRITE AS BRYANT]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “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.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-variation-noise-inhibition-another-call-creativity ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->