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Molecular circuits implementing fold-change detection (FCD) allow cells to respond to fold-change in signals regardless of absolute levels. Here, the authors find that meaning, attention and saturation similarly form an FCD circuit and produce the observed dynamics of human behavior in creative search.
Creative exploration as a scale-invariant search on a meaning landscape