Jordan Peterson

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Canadian Psychologist

Jerry Saltz

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.

American Critic

Thom Mayne

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

American Architect

Brian Eno

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

British Musician

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

German Composer

Laurie Helgoe

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

American Psychologist

Rowan Williams

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

English Theologian

Eileen Myles

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

American Poet

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

American Photographer

Use 'generative' to describe something that sparks new thoughts or creation.

Idea Inducing

'Generative' suggests something leads to practical outcomes, not just ideas.

Inspiring Action

'Generative' in linguistics specifically relates to syntax and sentence structure.

Grammar Specific

Think of 'generative' in linguistics as the brain's approach to creating language.

Mind's Language

'Generative' in biology implies involvement in creating life or new cells.

Biological Creation

Use 'generative' for processes related to living things reproducing or growing.

Living Processes

In computing, 'generative' refers to self-sufficient systems that produce outputs.

Tech Creators

'Generative' in tech often involves AI learning and creating new patterns.

AI Development

 and positive emotions, and the evidence suggests that daydreaming can help people envision ways to reach their goals and navigate relationships and social situations. Scientists think there may be two essential parts to this a generative phase of free-flowing ideas and spontaneous thoughts, courtesy of the default mode network,

The benefits of...

 very important for simulation in the nanoscaled sciences. For artists, we're making new worlds that we can uncover and explore. These generative algorithms grow over time, and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects. Our researchers are interacting with this data

Demo: Stunning data...

 What we need to understand is that failing at gender can and should be a positive, generative process. The mistakes we make with gender can only help us grow and better understand the multitudes of gender around us. But we need to make space for these mistakes.

A playful exploration of...

 The fact is, the majority of couples who have experienced affairs stay together. But some of them will merely survive, and others will actually be able to turn a crisis into an opportunity. They'll be able to turn this into a generative experience.

Rethinking infidelity...

 rather than just less horrible. Beneficence. Here, this gets right at the distinction between a disease-centered and a patient- or human-centered model of care, and here is where caring becomes a creative, generative, even playful act.

What really matters at...

 In the part of the story we've touched on today, it's all about predictive processing, so the idea is that the brain really does encode within it a sort of predictive generative model of the causes of signals from the world,

Anil Seth: How your...

 And those things are the reflection of the processes, and the time that they are made. And what I'm doing is attempting to synthesize the way one sees the world and the territories which are useful as generative material.

Thom Mayne: Architecture...

 And that means permissionless, it means open, it means generative. And that's important. But what's more important about this app is that it represents how a new generation is tackling the problem of government --

Jennifer Pahlka: Coding...

 He was saying that on its own, the environment is musically generative, that it is generous, that it is fertile, that we are already immersed.

Meklit Hadero: The...

 job the easy part the generative art as an architect my medium is the physical world that's where actually I realized