... some loose ends in reply to a message from a few days back ...
Mike Tintner wrote:
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Be honest - when and where have you ever addressed creative problems?
[Just count how many problems I have raised)..
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In my 1997 book FROM COMPLEXITY TO CREATIVITY
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Just as it is obvious that I know next to nothing about programming, it
is also obvious that you have v. little experience of discussing creative
problemsolving - at, I stress, a *metacognitive* level. (And nor, AFAIK, do
any AGI-ers - only partly excepting Minsky).
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The 1997 book I referenced above in fact contains a significant amount of
metacognition about creativity. You seem to have the idea that it's
supposed to be possible to explain an AGI's creative process in detail, in
specific instances ... and I don't know why you think that, since it's not
even the case for humans.
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All this stands in total, stark contrast to any discussion of logical or
mathematical, problems, where you are always delighted to engage in detail,
and v. helpful and constructive - and do not make excuses to cover up your
inexperience.
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Aspects of the mind that are closer to the deliberative, intensely conscious
level are easier to discuss explicitly and in detail.
Aspects of the mind that are mainly unconscious and have to do mainly with
the coordinated activity of a large number of different processes, are
harder to describe in detail in specific instances. One can describe the
underlying processes but this then becomes technical and lengthy!!
-- Ben
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Ben Goertzel, PhD
CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
Director of Research, SIAI
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first
overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson
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