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by Animats 2 hours ago
Great result on the biochemistry of memory storage. Then they venture into philosophy: "They still struggle to explain the spark that transforms information into insight."

Go watch Stable Diffusion iteratively transform noise into originality.

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i'm sorry, I cannot agree that anything like that can create "originality".
Creativity can be thought of as a combination of two things: A random idea generator, and a nonsense filter. Generate new random results ideas, filter out the nonsense ones, and you’ve generated good ideas.
A massive chasm exists between good, creative ideas and ideas that aren’t nonsense.
That's why most people are not creative, and tbqh, rather dumb