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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 William G. Lycan Abstracted from ‘Qualitative experience in machines,’ The Digital Phoenix: How computers are changing philosophy. 1. Many people, perhaps most people, have the idea that, however problematic qualitative experience is for the case of human beings, it is a lot more so for that of machines constructed by human beings. Few philosophers doubt that Continue reading Qualitative Experience in Machines by Willard McCarty In Terrence’s Self-Tormentor the old man Chremes proclaims, “I am a human being. I consider nothing human alien to me” (homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto) – a proclamation of magnanimity that lept out of this 2nd-century B.C. play and took on a proud, expansive life of its own. But alongside Continue reading Who am I computing? |
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