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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Can you elaborate on the connection to creativity? I'm missing the creativity <-> propositions link
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Yes, sorry, I was just using propositions as a handy example of a non-physical entity rationalists often give causal roles to. (Text scarfed from book draft.) Algorithms are another example. I was probably wrong to barge into
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