I agree. Creativity is not just being random. The old masters used measurement and perspective when painting their masterpieces, they didn't just sit there and hum and at the sky and wait for inspiration to strike them.

I think the idea that creativity is somehow mystical comes from a religious model of the human body. If you think your body has causal flesh and a supernatural/acausal soul, and that creativity comes from your soul (the part that is "you") then it follows that creativity comes from the acausal.

"So do we reason that the most unexpected events, convey the most information, and hence the most surprising acts are those that give us a pleasant shock of creativity - the feeling of suddenly absorbing new information?"

This is very cool.