Re: Creativity

Hello OmegaZero2003,

"OmegaZero2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "rick++" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (Suspiciously like a midterm question ...)
> > But I'd like to add the question, "Is creatively a useful or necessary
> > component of intelligence"?
> 
> Useful no doubt.  Necessary - probably not.
> 
> Intelligence, remember, has many facets/aspects - creativity beingone.
> 
> Also, measures of intelligence writ large, or of any of the aspects are not
> binary; the vallues fall on a spectrum - a range.
> 
> Therefor, one can have zero creativity, but be highly measured in othr
> aspects.
> 
> I would not want to say that one must have *all* the aspects of intelligence
> to be considered intelligent.


Point taken, there is a wide spectrum of intelligent system designs.
However, I believe that for anything remotely similar to human-level
intelligence creativity and curiosity are among primary modes of
thinking. [Although this discussion is limited to creativity]

That is so, not only because of the role of creativity in human life.
That is indispensable. I believe it has several cognitive reasons.
Creativity I suppose is in company of imagination and mental imagery.
Maintaining a consistent set of thoughts and modifying them at will,
employing procedures and skills obtained so far consciously is an
essential part of creativity as well as common sense reasoning.

How else, can the agent have any control on its environment in a
manner suited to his goals? How shall he have then project his goals
and desires into the future and plan for the road ahead?

Creativity itself is a suitcase word like consciousness, not
surprisingly. If we took out all the cognitive features we could label
"creative" from a human, what would we be left with? A marketing
droid?

Thanks,

--
Eray Ozkural