Tag: creativity
Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity
Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo.
Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation
There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors.
Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree
If the evidence is more suggestive of a creative enterprise like software engineering, that would have major implications.
Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise
Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional.
Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism
It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking.