Creative Integration: A Decidable Criterion of Creativity

In three linesResearchers propose a decidable criterion for creative integration: resolving a conflict between A and B is creative if description length strictly shrinks (C = L_pre/L_post > 1) under fixed language. Validated on multi-domain corpus via four falsifiable tests (computational check, hard negative discrimination, out-of-sample prediction, description-language robustness).

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