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Mind, Machine, and Creativity: An Artist's Perspective
Author(s) -
Sundararajan Louise
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.44
Subject(s) - creativity , perspective (graphical) , computational creativity , psychology , cognitive science , cognition , dimension (graph theory) , creativity technique , painting , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , social psychology , visual arts , art , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics
Harold Cohen is a renowned painter who has developed a computer program, AARON , to create art. While AARON has been hailed as one of the most creative AI programs, Cohen consistently rejects the claims of machine creativity. Questioning the possibility for AI to model human creativity, Cohen suggests in so many words that the human mind takes a different route to creativity, a route that privileges the relational, rather than the computational, dimension of cognition. This unique perspective on the tangled web of mind, machine, and creativity is explored by an application of three relational models of the mind to an analysis of Cohen's talks and writings, which are available on his website: www.aaronshome.com .