The Source of Human Creativity Is Intelligent Design

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Within the field of music, Beethoven’s compositions stand out not least because of his progressive loss of hearing. Source
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The Immaterial Origins of Human Creativity

Artificial Intelligence, brain chemistry, Creativity, Engineering, Eric Holloway, Ideas, information, Intelligent Design, Meaning, Mind Matters News, Minding the Brain, natural intelligence, natural processes, Neuroscience & Mind, novels, Pat Flynn, random processes, Robert J. Marks, speeches
Join Pat Flynn and his guests as they climb the metaphorical mountain of information to address the origins of human creativity. Source
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Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

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The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Source
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“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Source
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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

3 Quarks Daily, algorithms, art, Books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, Middle-earth, music, music theory, nature, Neuroscience & Mind, On Fairy Stories, Oxford University, sentience, soul, sub-creators, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Tolkien test, Turing test, War and Peace
Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Source
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The Rocks Cry Out — Looking Back on My Year

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We enjoyed our staff Christmas lunch yesterday at Ivar’s in downtown Seattle and a number of colleagues spoke movingly. Source
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Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

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AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Source
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Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

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Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Source
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Human Origins: All in the Family

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If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice. Source
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New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

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Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Source
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