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Subject: Re: Creativity and Analogy -- More Questions than Answers.
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 08:44:40 EDT
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Uttam Mukhopadhyay asks, in AIList Vol 4 #148 :-
>Is there more to creativity than making interesting analogies? I am
>inclined to believe that making interesting analogies is at the heart
>of all intelligent activity that is described as creative.
Hmmm...  A friend described another friend as a potentially good novelist,
because ``she always has a radically different view in the situation;
she always has a new angle''. But is there analogy tucked away in her
reasoning? And would we be able to elicit that knowledge from the 
`expert'?
Finally, *is* creativity always intelligent, and in what sense of the
word -- AI, machine intelligence or human intelligence? As for analogy,
we always need hooks to hang ideas on, don't we?
Gordon Joly
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