|
|
||
|
by Margaret Boden Creativity and computers: what could these possibly have to do with one another? “Nothing!,” many people would say. The two are simply incompatible.” Well, I disagree. Computers and creativity make interesting partners with respect to two different projects. One, which interests me the most, is understanding human creativity. The other is trying to produce Continue reading Can computer models help us to understand human creativity? by: Suzanne Preston Blier Egbé eja leja ?wè tò, egbé eye leye ?wò lé We mention nature and forget ourselves in it. So engrained is the trope of the animal in the West that animal truisms are seared into Continue reading Animalia: the Natural World, Art, and Theory by Michael Allen Gillespie At odd moments, often when I’m distracted, it occurs to me that a song or a piece of music has been repeatedly running through my head. It’s an experience nearly everyone has. Sometimes it’s invigorating to realize that you have been striding through the day to the chords of Beethoven, but it’s Continue reading Science and the Humanities by Joseph Tabbi In a panel discussion at the 1998 “Bookends” conference at SUNY Albany, Jacques Derrida spoke of Internet initiatives under way by his younger colleagues in France at the time. The first thing they would do, he said, is set up editorial boards, appoint in-house grant writers, and establish closed review processes – effectively Continue reading On Reading 300 Works of Electronic Literature: Preliminary Reflections by Joe Carroll Massive Modularity vs. Cognitive Flexibility Evolutionists insist that genes constrain and direct human behavior. Cultural constructivists counter that culture, embodied in the arts, shapes human experience. Both these claims are true, but some evolutionists and some cultural constructivists have mistakenly regarded them as mutually exclusive (D. S. Wilson, “Evolutionary”). Some evolutionists have either ignored Continue reading The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts |
National Humanities Center
Copyright © 2006-2010 |
|
|
Copyright © 2010 National Humanities Center - All Rights Reserved |
||
