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Creativity, ideas, art: the basic definitions
Anybody who has ever worked in a creative field will know that nobody else has the remotest idea about what you are doing. ‘Idea’, ‘Creativity’ and ‘Art’ are perversely some of the least well defined and most abused words in our language, and this book requires absolute clarity in respect to all three. The Oxford
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Making it all up
The relationship of quantum physics and language The great CERN physicist Ian Bell once wrote a short reflective paper called “Speakable and unspeakable in quantum physics”. He introduced this paper by quoting the opening of Koestler’s Sleepwalkers: “the manner in which some of the most important individual discoveries were arrived at reminds one of a
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The other AI
It is often assumed that AI, quantum physics and quantum computing are in some way linked. They are not. It is true that quantum science has informed the development of better conventional chips and conductors, but this is like saying that it has helped to develop better internal combustion engines (which is also true). Quantum
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A new ontology for quantum physics
Abstract This note outlines a “probability-field” interpretation of quantum mechanics. The proposal takes standard mathematics —especially the path-integral—as a direct description of reality rather than of hidden objects. In this view, probabilities themselves are the primitive ontology: physical reality is a dynamically evolving field of structured probability. Measurement means a momentary local stabilization of one
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Effect and Cause in Creative Physics
Normally, when we think about cause and effect, we try to understand what causes an event, and then we use that understanding to manipulate and predict future events. So when an accident happens we look for a reason, and then we try to use that knowledge to prevent future accidents. Equally, if somebody makes a
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Still The Truth
Our relationship with truth is becoming increasingly problematic. This is because we associate truth closely with facts. We might go to fact checkers to discover if information is true. But if it isn’t, it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Meanwhile events like climate change, which appear to be empirically true, are ignored. Worse, most
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Why you are what you are not
Eddie Izard had an idea. There must have been a death star canteen. “I’ll have the penne arrabiata” “You’ll need a tray” “Do you know who I am?” “Do you know who I am?” “This is not a game of who the fuck are you, for I am Vader, Darth Vader, Lord Vader, I can
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Adphorisms
Advertising is art when it combines a visual idea and a verbal idea in a new way. Not all advertising sells and selling is not a skill that improves advertising Advertising is an art form evolved through degeneration of attention. Theatre, film, advertisement Advertising is the shortest form of drama Advertising combines words and pictures
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The Rabbit Hole Problem
The recent Apple test on AI models (see Guardian report here) reports that “these models fail to develop generalisable reasoning capabilities”. What does this mean?Imagine a huge Easter egg hunt. There are a billion rabbit holes, each one a billion miles long, with billions of branches. The egg hunt requires you to find a single
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What art is
Art is a new connection of ideas.. An idea is any imagined event. Ideas are the artist’s material. An idea can be trivial or complex. “Let’s go to the park” is an idea. This event has been imagined and has happened many times. “Maybe the earth goes around the sun in an elliptical orbit” is
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