Re: Creativity

Hi there Eray!

"Eray Ozkural exa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello OmegaZero2003,
>
> "OmegaZero2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "rick++" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > (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]

Hmmm!  I had not given that aspect that much thought - but now that you
mention those aspects!

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

deals with creativity and consciousness/intelligence.


>
> 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?

Well, planning to reach a goal is one thing.

Curiosity is another - doing things that may not put one closer to a goal -
just for fun.

Perhaps having fun needs to be a goal.

>
> 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