But what exactly is it? How does it come about? And could science ever explain it? In this book, Margaret Boden goes on to offer some new and startling answers to these questions. She argues that intuition - the impetus, many believe, for creativity - can be scientifically examined. Using the idea that creativity involves the exploration of conceptual spaces in the mind, she describes these spaces and ways of transforming them to produce new ones by using computational concepts drawn from artificial intelligence. And she demonstrates that we can now apply psychology in a new way by trying to make computers do the sort of things real minds do. Without denying creativity's unpredictability or its wonder, and emphasising the richness and power of the human mind, she crosses the art/science divide and outlines how the creative process may be scientificaally understood.