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This feels to me more like an ideological talking point than a statement with evidence to back it up. Can you explain what you mean when you say that human intelligence can create new information?

My first thought is that humans can draw conclusions from information given to them, but that sounds more like deriving information from other information.

[yters]

Yes, there is an element of derivation since we cannot create ex nihilo, but we can infer information that is not entirely implicit in a set of data. In the case of games that AIs are dominating, this is apparent in the difference between how AIs play vs how humans play. AIs essentially memorize a gigantic move valuation table, and scan an enormous number of moves, maximizing their tactical advantage. Humans, on the other hand, have learned principles of play and how to apply these to different scenarios, so are better at a strategic level. This is why humans can evaluate a much smaller number of moves. These principles are examples of new information humans have created. In some sense, the principles pre-exist in an abstract plane, as does every idea. However, the concrete actualization of the principle in the human mind and in application is the creation of information: the mutual information between a medium (mind or matter) and the abstract idea is being increased. This general principle inference ability that humans have is not something that can be done algorithmically. Essentially, I am claiming humans are able to violate the data processing inequality.