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jatorayesterday at 8:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Do you really think a human creating something isn't the output of assimilating the outputs of countless humans that came before them?

Your argument implies creativity is confined to humans or brains. So no creativity existed before that? Weird. Lucky for us that evolution spawned creativity then!

If you could answer that question then that should help me understand, since you say it is trivial to verifiably prove my position wrong


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neomyesterday at 8:48 PM

The dean of the art school I went to regularly used to say "The most creative people simply to the best job of hiding the source of their creativity". - in fact he invoked it once directly to me when I protested about how one of my peers went about their final assignment, and again when the whole program revolted over a submission that won honors. I learned a lot about art in that art program, but mostly I learned art wasn't that I thought it was. :)