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The Limits of What We Can Learn From Studying Creativity

In this third and final part of my essay, I look at what sets us apart from machines: Our capacity to leap from commonsense inferences to entirely new ways of understanding reality
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Michael Egnor on Faith, Reason, and the Architecture of Reality

In this week’s podcast, discussion with Robert J. Marks, he talks about the relationship between arguments from philosophical reasoning and faith
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Should We Use Generative AI Chatbots to Spark Our Creativity?

What if we become so disconnected from human ways of knowing that real life relationships, desires, and reality itself begins to shrivel away?
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Stranger Things: Why Mad Scientists Are Mad

At the highest levels, creativity seems to bypass the deliberate, structured thought process altogether
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