Phil/Psych 447
Seminar in Cognitive Science
Week 7: Human and Computer Creativity
Larry Abbott lecture on brains and chaos.
Boden Chapter 11
Discussion Questions
- What did you find confusing or hard to understand in this chapter?
- Do scientific explanations of creativity devalue it?
- Does explanation of creativity challenge human freedom?
- Do embodiment and neuroscience make computional psychology irrelevant?
- Why won't computer models of creativity match humans?
- Does creativity require consciousness?
- Would making computers creative be immoral?
- Are creativity and freedom binary (yes or no), continuous (matters of degree on one dimension), or multidimensional?
Boden Chapter 12
Discussion Questions
- What did you find confusing or hard to understand in this chapter?
- Can computers be funny?
- Are Cope's models of music informative, or just a trick?
- Could a computer program write a movie script?
- Does Aaron's painting make it more impressive?
- Could computers acquire semantics, evaluation, and emotion?
- Can creativity be marvelous without being mysterious?
Computational Epistemology
Laboratory.
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