[Question] Has anyone written a reductionist theory of creativity?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7p83SHqpotvGZasps/has-anyone-written-a-reductionist-theory-of-creativity

That is, explain creativity from more fundamental building blocks

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Eliezer wrote "the creative surprise is the idea that ranks high in your preference ordering but low in your search ordering." Colloquially, "that’s great; I wouldn’t have thought of that."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7p83SHqpotvGZasps/has-anyone-written-a-reductionist-theory-of-creativity?commentId=vqpoh5xeE4zM8E62g

My intuition told me that Jürgen Schmidhuber likely did, and Google led me to his Formal Theory of Creativity and Fun and Intrinsic Motivation. I have not read it.