Re: Help! I want my creativity back

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 19:25:45 -0600

> Control (or Logic) and Creativity are often two different parts of the
> brain that should be taught to work in concert. Science teaches us to
> require an unbroken chain of evidence. (Just try and PROVE the sky is
> blue.) Religion tends to deal with the fuzzier logic of belief, sometimes
> accepting the most unrelated of associations. ("I saw Jesus' face in that
> marble pillar!") Creativity is often more Religion than Science, or
> what is often called Right-Brain thinking, as opposed to Logical
> Left-Brain thinking.

I'm sorry. Your paragraph violates the maximum number of capitalized
phrases for scientific thought.

As I said and as I intend to keep on saying, can you make a creative
AI? Have you read the source code of any AI which is arguably
creative? (Hofstadter and Mitchell's Copycat comes to mind.) Is there
any cognitive science behind your claims? Have you read a book which
routinely uses the phrase "cerebral cortex" or "search tree", or are all
of these ideas derived from mounds of predigested psychobabble about
releasing your Inner Child?

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