Click above to hear part 1 of Creative Brains, featuring Anthony Brandt, Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University, and David Eagleman, Neuroscientist at Stanford University, who are co-authors of The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. In this segment, we discuss what defines creativity, and discover its broad applications.

Creative Brains:
Part 1: What is Creativity?
Part 2: The Biology of Creativity
Part 3: Artificial Creativity

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