computers – On the Human https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human a project of the National Humanities Center Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:39:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Can computer models help us to understand human creativity? https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2010/05/can-computer-models-help-us-to-understand-human-creativity/ https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2010/05/can-computer-models-help-us-to-understand-human-creativity/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 04:44:06 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/?p=1051 Creativity and computers: what could these possibly have to do with one another? “Nothing!,” many people would say. The two are simply incompatible.”

Well, I disagree. Computers and creativity make interesting partners with respect to two different projects. One, which interests me the most, is understanding human creativity. The other is trying to produce machine

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]]> https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2010/05/can-computer-models-help-us-to-understand-human-creativity/feed/ 23 Qualitative Experience in Machines https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/10/qualitative-experience-in-machines/ https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/10/qualitative-experience-in-machines/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:51:16 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/?p=538 Abstracted from ‘Qualitative experience in machines,’ The Digital Phoenix: How computers are changing philosophy.

1. Many people, perhaps most people, have the idea that, however problematic qualitative experience is for the case of human beings, it is a lot more so for that of machines constructed by human beings. Few philosophers doubt that human beings’

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]]> https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/10/qualitative-experience-in-machines/feed/ 22 Who am I computing? https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/05/who-am-i-computing/ https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2009/05/who-am-i-computing/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 16:34:55 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/humannature/?p=221 In Terrence’s Self-Tormentor the old man Chremes proclaims, “I am a human being. I consider nothing human alien to me” (homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto) – a proclamation of magnanimity that lept out of this 2nd-century B.C. play and took on a proud, expansive life of its own. But alongside the humanistic

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