Humans do something other than follow algorithms: An algorithm has 1) an input, and 2) an output that's related to the input in a prescribable way (i.e. it has to halt—Turing) Creativity can't be an algorithm, because one can't specify criteria for what the output would be.
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There are many (non-supernatural!) computations that don't halt, and don't produce an output. For example, trying to compute a noncomputable function. Ditto crashing (assuming you don't count crashing as an output). Not all computation is algorithmic (in the above sense).
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Also, people don’t have inputs or outputs, in the computational sense in which those are mathematical objects.
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My response would be: 1) I think you can specify the output of creativity. For example, you could say that it's something that people enjoy as art. 2) You can't specify the output of a random number generator either, but that doesn't make randomness something only humans can do.
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Yes, I don’t think humans are metaphysically special. I’m not sure where
@reasonisfun was going, and it may have been rude of me to jump in there. However, I don’t think the C-T thesis has much to say about what humans can or can’t do. - 1 more reply
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I would be surprised, computationalists are a tiny minority, and we mostly have given up on the humans. :)
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