Tag: surprise
Measuring Surprise — A Frontier of Design Theory
The carvings look sustained (there are many of them) and deliberate, unlike creases created by splitting and pitting of surfaces over ages.
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.