Depression and Creativity

I’m working on an article about depression and decided to ask about the connection between depression and creativity. Claude makes a few general remarks and asks for my thoughts. So I mention some remarks that my teacher, David Hays, had made years ago, mentioning that he was a computational linguist. After some general remarks, Claude asks:

... did Hays develop this idea through his work in computational linguistics? It seems like there might be interesting parallels between how computer systems need to reorganize data structures and how human minds might need to reorganize mental frameworks.

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