Maybe I will take you up on this - I think my uni library card expired years ago, and its a PITA to renew.
However, since one doesn't need a mind to be creative (and my interest is actually in mindless creative processes), I'm not sure exactly how relevant something titled "Mechanism of Mind" it will be. BTW - very close to sending you a finished draft of Amoeba's Secret. I just have to check the translations I wasn't sure of now that I have access to a dictionary/Google translate, and also redo the citations in a more regular manner. Cheers On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 02:52:29PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
