ParanoidMysticFri, Mar 21, 2008 This is starting to sound an awful lot like one of my all-time favorite books: Words Made Flesh by Ramsey Dukes.
Let's suppose the computer could do "our work," by which I mean it could itself become creative. At a certain point in the process of creativity it would necessarily become self-aware. If we're still present, we would find ourselves confronted by our creations with the very same angsty questions any of us would ask a grey-bearded man in the sky if we ran into him.
My hunch (and that's all it is) is that we would *not* be around to provide the answers. The realization of self-awareness on the part of our artifacts will correspond with a realization on the part of us the creators about the nature of the act of creativity itself, opening a space for movement along an axis as of yet unavailable to us.
This is starting to sound an awful lot like one of my all-time favorite books: Words Made Flesh by Ramsey Dukes.
Let's suppose the computer could do "our work," by which I mean it could itself become creative. At a certain point in the process of creativity it would necessarily become self-aware. If we're still present, we would find ourselves confronted by our creations with the very same angsty questions any of us would ask a grey-bearded man in the sky if we ran into him.
My hunch (and that's all it is) is that we would *not* be around to provide the answers. The realization of self-awareness on the part of our artifacts will correspond with a realization on the part of us the creators about the nature of the act of creativity itself, opening a space for movement along an axis as of yet unavailable to us.