Ogle, an entrepreneur and independent scholar, offers a new understanding, grounded in the laws of network science, of how creative breakthroughs, from Dave Brubeck's album Time Out to Apple's iPod, are born when individuals and groups access idea- spaces. He draws on three developments in the philosophy of mind and the empirical mind/brain sciences: the recognition that the mind extends beyond the brain into culturally and socially embedded "idea-spaces"; a renewed interest in the mind's imaginative faculties and the analogical reasoning that underlies them; and the emergence of a new science of networks. Ogle defines his idea-spaces as domains or world views, such as myths, business models, scientific paradigms, and institutions, which are "rich with embedded intelligence," and contends that they are subject to the same laws that underlie networks. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)