Monday, January 21, 2008

Mysticism of Creativity

The more I study creativity, the more the magic of it begins to melt away. When I first started reading about creativity, I thought of it like pulling things that don't exist out of the air, and somehow give birth to a new concept. I saw exercises for improving creativity as a mystic ritual people did to summon ideas from a netherworld. The process always seemed magical.

Now, creativity just seems like a way creating connections between what we already know, or reframing things we already know with a different perspective. I'm feeling like creativity is a process that can be forced on anyone. I can completely see creativity being built into AI once a sense of semantics is built into an AI engine.

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