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Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
The noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,
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What Darwin and Turing did was envisage the most extreme version of this point: all the brilliance and comprehension in the world arises ultimately out of uncomprehending competences compounded over time into ever more competent—and hence comprehending—systems.
Daniel C Dennett • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
One of the most influential introspective reports on creativity was provided by Henri Poincare ´ who described his own experience of creativity in terms of swarms of ideas arising and combining randomly in his unconsciousness and then his selection of the most promising ones according to aesthetic criteria (‘Mathematical Creation’).
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Intelligence in not a computational process…there are things going on in the physical world that are not “computable” and this includes consciousness.
-Sir Roger Penrose