Originality and Information Redundance: a Threat of Seemingly Enlightened Ignorance, or a Source of Creativity?

Abstract

The article aims to show how information redundance correlates with the creative potential of the research subject. The authors invite the reader to delve into the problem of “undisclosed public knowledge” from a few perspectives, to go about the following questions: to what extent can neural networks be considered assistants in revealing the creative potential of a researcher? How well is Popper’s “Searchlight theory” of knowledge justified by the arguments of the inventors of second-order cybernetics? Why has information redundance turned out to be critically important for biological and social evolution? The article concludes with the observation that our mind is an “unfinished project of evolution”. It is called upon, under modern conditions, to rely on AI, without submitting to it, or handing over its credentials to it.