On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Mike Tintner <tint...@blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
> "Are you sure it was A. Sloman who wrote or said that? From where I'm > sitting it looks like it was Margaret Boden who wrote it. But then again, I > am one of those people who sometimes make mistakes." > Jim Bromer > > And this is indeed another of your mistakes: > > > http://onthehuman.org/2010/05/can-computer-models-help-us-to-understand-human-creativity/ > > see [ironically] his: > > CREATIVITY AS A RESPONSE TO COMBINATORICS > > and nb. his previous paras [wh. I hadn't fully noted] and wh. also agree > with me: > > "All this is a brief introduction to the study of the many ways in which > biological evolution was under pressure to provided humans and other animals > with information-processing mechanisms that are capable of acquiring many > different kinds of information and then developing novel ways of using that > information to solve any of millions of different problems without having to > learn solutions by trial and error, without having to be taught, and without > having to imitate behaviour of others. I.e. they are P-creative solutions. > > I conjecture that these highly practical forms of creativity, which are > obviously important in crafts, engineering, science, and many everyday > activities at home or at work, are closely related to the mechanisms that > also produce *artistic* forms of creativity." > But he goes on to say, "Of course, none of this will impress people who don't WANT to believe that machines can be creative. They just need to learn to think more creatively," and that is another one of your mistakes. ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
