Showing posts with label neural precondition for creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neural precondition for creativity. Show all posts

Saturday, April 07, 2012

HAL's Error


To err is human and non-human.



Is error in brain circuitry a precondition of imagination and creativity?

The human brain is soft-wired. The brain's wiring is mushy; it is not in the main metallic; if the brain is a machine, it is - in part - a biological machine, a biological mechanism. (The brain is also chemical, electrical, magnetic, etc. Yes?)

Is it the following the case?: The mushiness of the brain's circuitry helps to explain why non-deterministic human reasoning is possible, why human thoughts and reasoning can burst outside preexisting channels?

But to explain fully the possibility of non-deterministic (non-deductive?) human thought processes -- imagination and creativity -- is it also necessary to suppose that thoughts that burst outside of established circuitry produce a kind of somewhat disordered complexity and chaos?

I don't know. But I have a suspicion. (Yes.)


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