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For Koestler a behavioral analysis of creativity is not only impossible but ludicrous, since novelty cannot arise in a “mechanistic” system. A creative mind must be at work. But a creative mind explains nothing. It is an appeal to the miraculous: mind is brought in to do what the body cannot do. But we must then explain how the mind does it, and if we accept that assignment, we discover that we have merely restated our original problem in much more difficult terms. (p. 385)