This is the part of the article which bothered me. There are consistent references to creativity being a child putting every object in their mouth or a dog eating everything because of it's natural curiosity whilst simultaneously arguing that abstraction is a form of intelligence not expressed in the old times.

Would a person with the ability to abstract feel the need to generate every pattern? Would Western Europe have really demonstrated its "creativiity or intelligence" by creating every version of a pattern....or just a few?