Cuando el “ácido universal” darwiniano entra en contacto con la creatividad humana

Dennett has argued that a thorough reception of Darwinian evolutionary theory must modify our conception of mental phenomena, which traditionally includes human creativity. In this article, I aim to systematize and develop some guidelines that a Darwinian approach to human creativity should adopt, following Dennett's ideas. I will argue that Dennett's Darwinian approach to creativity is pluralistic in nature —since it incorporates processes of different kinds and operates at different levels— it includes explanations that account for the cumulative nature of design, and it considers that creative processes are largely collaborative and do not necessarily involve understanding. Thus, it is an approach that maintains that the human mind, acting individually, does not possess the power assigned to it by pre-Darwinian approaches to creativity.