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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This *could*, in principle, just be philosophical nitpicking: but Part III of The Eggplan, which I’m currently attempting to write, explains that it has substantive implications for how we can be use formal rationality in the physical world.
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(More typos: “Eggplant”; “best use,” not “be use.” Am packing for a trip and not paying proper attention!)
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