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Rules of creative thinking algorithms heuristics and Soviet cybernetic psychology
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A historical-academic paper relevant to AI safety researchers interested in the intellectual genealogy of algorithmic reasoning, heuristics, and early AI cognition research, particularly from underexplored Soviet cybernetic traditions.
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This paper examines the historical development of creative thinking frameworks within Soviet cybernetic psychology, exploring how algorithms and heuristics were conceptualized as tools for systematizing and automating creative problem-solving. It traces intellectual lineages connecting Soviet-era research on cognition and computation to broader questions about the nature of human and machine intelligence.
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- •Explores Soviet cybernetic psychology's unique contributions to theories of creative thinking and problem-solving in the mid-20th century.
- •Examines the tension between algorithmic (rule-based) and heuristic approaches to modeling human creativity and cognition.
- •Traces how Soviet researchers attempted to formalize creative processes, anticipating modern AI research on automated reasoning.
- •Provides historical context for how political and ideological constraints shaped Soviet approaches to cognitive science and early AI.
- •Relevant to understanding the diverse intellectual traditions that contributed to modern AI and machine learning paradigms.
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# Rules of creative thinking: algorithms, heuristics and Soviet cybernetic psychology
- October 2023
- [BJHS Themes](https://www.researchgate.net/journal/BJHS-Themes-2056-354X) 8:1-15
DOI: [10.1017/bjt.2023.9](https://doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2023.9)
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## Abstract
In the 1960s, creativity became an important category for the Soviet state. Soviet educators and policy makers came to define creativity as problem solving in the service of Soviet automation. At the same time, the introduction of cybernetics, information theory and methods of artificial intelligence (AI) to psychology enabled Soviet researchers to perform quantitative studies of human cognition. The state concern with creative thinking and the cyberneticization of Soviet psychology allowed for the first quantitative studies of human problem solving. These shifts in Soviet society and scientific communities created fertile ground for the creation of Lev Landa's algo-heuristic theory (AHT), a pedagogical method of cultivating rule-bound creativity relying on tools and instruments developed and perfected in information theory and AI research. Drawing on scholarship in the history of algorithmic rationality, the Cold War discourse on creativity as a corporate imperative, and the place of cybernetics-inflected methods in the welfare domain, this article analyses the AHT as rule-ba
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