From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 18 1996 - 20:18:03 MST
> << Let's turn this thread around and stop looking at
> the topic at hand from a "meta-physical" level and start discussing the
> biological and chemical reasons, as well as the psychological, that these
> events occur. By understanding why, we can more efficiently help those
> that are asking for aid as well as possibly enhance our own practice and
> experience. >>
>
> I think you are correct, this need to be done - but for a creative person to
> do this would be extremely counter productive. It is exactly this kind of
> state that I try to avoid!
Au contraire. Speaking as a creative person who came up with a
neurophysiological explanation of his creativity, that type of analytic
activity is exactly what creativity requires.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
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everything I think I know.
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