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Is there a correlation between intelligence and creative/artistic talent?

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None, probably.

It is generally assumed that consciousness lies in the left brain “only”, and that creativity lies in the right brain “only”. It may be a gross idea that would probably be mocked by every good professional, it's nonetheless useful (and still, quite right) to think in that way.

Creativity is a pure unconscious process, so that would make sense if the hemispheres were dedicated to those different activities.

Creativity is a task like “let’s evaluate all the possibilities and decide which one is the best”, so it’s mainly a parallel computation, and intelligence is using sequences, logic and memory, so it’s mainly a serial computation.

Just like in a computer, the GPU is the chip dedicated to parallel computing and it’s a different chip than the CPU, for serial computing.

So if CPU and GPU are to be built separately then with computers we have to evaluate those 2 capacities on different graphs, and juste like so it’s probably better to assume that our brains work in the same way: creativity on one graph, and intelligence on an other. They are different dimensions.

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