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Comment author: pjeby 11 January 2012 05:03:56PM 2 points [-]

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what creativity is. Read "Serious Creativity" to dissolve the idea that creativity and craziness are related. (It's actually an optimization and search process -- and as per the Sequences, you can't improve such a process much by adding randomness to it. That is, above a certain small level of randomness, you won't be making things better, compared to changing the higher-level processes as per Serious Creativity. SC's author offers a proper reductionist explanation of creativity, at the, "AI people wanting to implement creativity should read this" level.)

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 12 January 2012 04:37:30PM *  1 point [-]

Similar point about intuition in "Strategic Intuition" by WIll Duggan