On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:46:11PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > But still, I tend to bet that creativity, if he can exploit it, is still > > independent of it. > > I still find it hard to grasp how we could have a creative process > without some degree of random exploration. >
Bruno has a technical definition of "creative" due to Post, that is most definitely deterministic. I haven't had the chance to really understand what that means (I've read Wikipedia, and the significance escapes me :() But I agree with Telmo - I think random exploration is an essential component of creativity - whether that's truly random, or just random with respect to the observer (ie cryptographically strong), is still a bit of an open point. Whether there's any connection to Post's sense of creative is another open question ... Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
