Technical and management notes: The roles of expanded awareness and inner awareness in technological creativity

摘要

This note lends support to an early conjecture by William Shockley (1957) on the qualities of consciousness attributable to the creative technologist. The roles of expanded awareness and the ability to experience thoughts at their source are traced through the statements of outstanding creative technologists as well as leading students of creativity. A possible technique for developing those qualities of consciousness is indicated. Recent experiment gives direct verification of the technique's effectiveness.