Please, please read Edward de Bono's book "The Mechanism of Mind" for some genuine insights into creativity and how this comes about in mind. Russell if you can't track down a copy I'll lend you mine but it's a treasured object, not least because of the fact that the author autographed it!
On 09/10/2012, at 8:39 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > The problem that exercises me (when I get a chance to exercise it) is > that of creativity. David Deutsch correctly identifies that this is one of > the main impediments to AGI. Yet biological evolution is a creative > process, one for which epistemology apparently has no role at all. > > Continuous, open-ended creativity in evolution is considered the main > problem in Artificial Life (and perhaps other fields). Solving it may > be the work of a single moment of inspiration (I wish), but more > likely it will involve incremental advances in topics such as > information, complexity, emergence and other such partly philosophical > topics before we even understand what it means for something to be > open-ended creative. Popperian epistemology, to the extent it has a > role, will come much further down the track. > > Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
