I’m once again begging people to read David Gelernter’s 1994 book “The Muse in the Machine”. I’m surprised to see no mention of it in Gwern’s post, it’s the exa

I’m once again begging people to read David Gelernter’s 1994 book “The Muse in the Machine”. I’m surprised to see no mention of it in Gwern’s post, it’s the exact book he should be reaching for on this topic. In examining the possibility of genuinely creative computing, Gelernter discovers and defends a model of cognition that explains so much about the human experience of creativity, including daydreaming, dreaming, everyday “aha” moments, and the evolution of human approaches to spirituality. https://uranos.ch/research/references/Gelernter_1994/Muse%20In%20The%20Machine.pdf https://uranos.ch/research/references/Gelernter_1994/Muse%20...