fixedness

Relational identity allows both sides to preserve their autonomy but also work within their shared space, an achievement of both fluidity and fixedness.

For now, the authors continue to see "Moving forward, future possibilities of AI acting as a tool of inspiration, as an aid in a person's creative process or to overcome fixedness is promising."

That speaks to a cognitive bias called functional fixedness.

People struggle to solve it because they get hung up on the “functional fixedness” of the box as a container for tacks, not as a theoretical shelf for the candle.

Stability counts for something and fixedness is what statues do best.