“Earlier this year, in an unprecedented series of intensive sessions, the cognitive science department of UCSD filmed, recorded, interviewed and analysed the early creative choreography of dancers from Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance group. Cognitive scientists spend their time learning how people learn, if that’s not a fabulously stupid oversimplification of their alchemic process: from relatively simple stuff, such as studying the most efficient way to count a table of disparate coins, to the big stuff such as this, understanding creativity.”