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Animats 4 hours ago

Great result on the biochemistry of memory storage. Then they venture into philosophy: "They still struggle to explain the spark that transforms information into insight."

Go watch Stable Diffusion iteratively transform noise into originality.

project2501a 3 hours ago | parent [-]

i'm sorry, I cannot agree that anything like that can create "originality".

coldtea 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

As opposed to what? Water and tissue?

taneq 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Creativity can be thought of as a combination of two things: A random idea generator, and a nonsense filter. Generate new random results ideas, filter out the nonsense ones, and you’ve generated good ideas.

boston_clone 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A massive chasm exists between good, creative ideas and ideas that aren’t nonsense.

coldtea 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not that massive.

A lot of good, creative ideas have been called out and derived as nonsense or crazy. Many still are.

CrimsonRain 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's why most people are not creative, and tbqh, rather dumb