[FPGAhacker]

> One of the things that separates ordinary people from smarter people is the topic of this article, the ability to imagine new concepts, questions, ideas. Colloquially we call this creativity, and it stems from a large degree of playfulness and enjoyment of the subject at hand.

Pretty sure we call that imagination. Creativity, shockingly enough, involves creation, not just imagination.

[mym1990]

You can creatively destroy things as well. It’s kind of pedantic to say that creating in the mind does not count as “creating”, just imagining. What about solving abstract problems?

[phito]

What's the difference? OP could have said "create new concepts, questions and ideas" and it would be exactly the same