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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015999)" |
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| Creativity |
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| ideas through patents, copyright, and trade secret is big business and |
| combines to form the practice of 'intellectual property. Societies with |
| the best protection of intellectual property are often the most successful. |
| The USA is the unassailed leader, with Asian countries rapidly catching |
| up. Poor old Europeans have struggled with an almost unworkable |
| patent system for nearly 30 years; a genuine Europe-wide patent only |
| came into effect in 2013. |
| Creativity in the economy is now extremely important, and nothing |
| emphasizes the point more than the job market. During the 60s finding a |
| job was easy. There was an almost unlimited range of mechanical jobs on |
| offer. In the post-industrial age, almost all the mechanical jobs have gone. |
| Today we need to be experts in a field, able to solve problems creatively. |
| You can't expect to walk into a job and be profitably productive on the |
| first day. Finding a job is harder and the cost of employing someone is |
| greater. |
| Why did we Evolve Creativity? |
| Roger Penrose wonders why mathematical creativity evolved in humans |
| since it only became useful in ancient Greece a few thousand years ago. |
| He believes it must have been useful for something before this. But what? |
| David Deutsch thinks creativity developed to allow one human to |
| understand the thoughts of a fellow human being. We can't precisely |
| communicate the 'programs' we run in our heads. We are unable to |
| download a detailed thought and put it on a memory stick. He thinks |
| our creative capacity developed to help us pass skills from one to another. |
| The ability to paint and sculpt is an accidental by-product of this adaption. |
| It's my view we evolved creativity to deal with new situations |
| and puzzles in our daily lives. We use creative thought processes and |
| ingenuity to come up with novel solutions for when we can't rely on |
| programming or a store of rules. Otherwise, the very first unforeseen |
| situation could kill us! |
| Computer Creativity |
| Humans find creativity difficult. It requires peace and quiet, detailed |
| study and input of caffeine. How does a computer fare? I have argued |
| that computers cannot be creative above the logic limit, so this does not |
| preclude them from creating within the narrow confines of a particular |
| solution space. But a human still needs to set the rules for this space. The |
| level of creativity we should see from computers is convincing within |
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