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.

There was something in his gaze—a miles-away fixedness—that made me think for a minute that he had stopped altogether, but he went on.