Creativity and Computers

Creativity is a puzzle, a paradox, some say a mystery. Artists and scientists rarely know how their original ideas come about. They mention intuition, but cannot say how it works. Most psychologists cannot tell us much about it, either. What’s more, many people assume that there will never be a scientific theory of creativity—for how could science possibly explain fundamental novelties?

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