It just may provide you that "flash of insight" you hanker for; that's my grand hope, anyway.
here's a snippet: "There may be no reason to say something until after it has been said. Once it has been said a context develops to support it, and yet it would never have been produced by a context. It may not be possible to plan a new style in art, but once it comes about, it creates its own validity. It is usual to proceed forward step by step until one has got somewhere. But - it is also possible to get there first by any means and then look back and find the best route. A problem may be worked forward from the beginning but it may also be worked backward from the end. Instead of proceeding steadily along a pathway, one jumps tpo a different point, or several different points in turn, and then waits for them to link together to form a coherent pattern. It is in the nature of the self-maximising system of the memory-surface that is mind to create a coherent pattern out of such separate points. If the pattern is effective then it cannot possibly matter whether it came about in a sequential fashion or not. A frame of reference is a context provided by the current arrangement of information. It is the direction of development implied by this arrangement. One cannot break out of this frame of reference by working from within it. It maybe necessary to jump out, and if the jump is successful then the frame of reference is itself altered". (p. 240 - description of the process known as "Lateral Thinking".) Give me a bell in about a week and we will jump in somewhere for a beer and I will pass you this volume (if still interested after reading the above) - I will have a little less Uni work to do for a short while; I may be able to get down to a bit of finessing of our translation of Bruno's "Amoebas". Kim Jones On 10/10/2012, at 8:16 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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