Creative suggest novel or unexpected output. Creative output is usually related to errors. A person that knows the truth is rarely creative. This brings me to the creatve calculator I used to own. When the battery got low it would start drifting around numbers and creating new number symbols. It was very interesing to watch. Unfortunate I threw it a way not knowing that it would be an important observation. -----Original Message----- From: "Mike Tintner" <tint...@blueyonder.co.uk> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: 1/13/09 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [agi] [WAS The Smushaby] The Logic of Creativity
Hi Jim Yes you have misunderstood the nature of a creative problem, but no criticism - I clearly need to spell this out v carefully - because I get that particular misunderstanding over and over from programmers. [I'll just answer briefly BTW because as I said, I want to do a much fuller, systematic argument.another time] The central part [though not the only part of this and every creative] problem for you and your computer and almost anyone is this: you have *no domain knowledge* of, and no rules for, "flying houses". oh yes, you know about the domain of "flying creatures" say like birds, or "flying planes", and rules that apply to them, and you know a lot about the domain of "houses".and rules that apply to them But you have no domain knowledge - no semantic network - no rules about how to put the two together (or whether they do go together, or aren't a contradiction in terms] - or what the result should look like, or how it should function. Overall you have a v. *incomplete domain set.* And just to make life multiply difficult you don't have criteria of what a "good" flying house is. What IS a good flying house, Jim? And what makes one flying house better than another, because you're going to have to make such judgments, as you consider alternative possiblities - flat roof, sloped ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=126863270-d7b0b0 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
