Problem situations as a source of human creative potential development

Abstract

In different communities at a certain stage of sociogenesis, a system of cultural tools and artifacts begins to be created and developed to support the construction of problem situations and tasks for others in educational, gaming, and diagnostic purposes. The history of inventing toys that stimulate cognitive activity, problem-solving, and experimental objects for studying the thinking of others is part of the intellectual history of humanity, the history of unfolding its creative potential towards self-development and self-knowledge.A key component of the ability to create problem situations and tasks for others is a special part of the model of representations about this other - about how he (an individual, a group, a representative of another biological species, etc.) will cope with the difficulty and what will be the result. Starting from a certain level of novelty and complexity of situations and objects that stimulate problem-solving, it is unlikely that systems for their algorithmic generation are possible. Otherwise, there are risks of creating standard means for generating and/or evaluating non-standard results.The invention of problem situations and objects for studying the creative thinking of others is a special, little-studied type of creativity, creative thinking that is part of the creative civilizational potential of humanity.