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Why AI Can’t Create Like We Can

Human beings are endowed with a unique creative force, so why let AI have all the fun?

AI belongs to this world of necessity and it is bound by the inputs we give it: code, training data, prompts. It has no imagination.

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Did the Human Mind Originate in Telling Ourselves Stories?

A philosopher and writer tries to account for the jump from animal to human by wholly natural means

Philosopher Keith Frankish melds linguist Daniel Dor’s ideas with philosopher Daniel Dennett’s to come up with a revealingly circular theory.

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Does Vivid Imagination Help “Explain” Consciousness?

A popular science magazine struggles to make the case

Vivid imagination doesn’t explain human consciousness (or the ability to abstract); they are one of its characteristics. The second film in the Science Uprising series mocks the prejudice that is always looking for “explanations” of consciousness that really aim at explaining it away.

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