I’m writing back in good faith, btw. Cool conversation.
randomness is a central part of a human coming up with an idea.
So, here’s how I understanding this claim.
As an endorsement of the Copenhagen Interpretation about the ubiquity of randomness at the quantum level.
As a rejection of subjectivity (à la eliminative materialism), which reduces thoughts, emotions, and experience to facts about neural activation vectors.
(1) means randomness is background noise cancelled out at scale. We can still ask why some people are more creative than others, (or why some planets are redshifted compared to others) and presumably we have more to say than “luck,” since the statistical chances that Shakespeare wrote his plays at random is 0.
Interpretation (2) suggests that creativity doesn’t exist and this whole conversation is senseless.
I’m writing back in good faith, btw. Cool conversation.
So, here’s how I understanding this claim.
(1) means randomness is background noise cancelled out at scale. We can still ask why some people are more creative than others, (or why some planets are redshifted compared to others) and presumably we have more to say than “luck,” since the statistical chances that Shakespeare wrote his plays at random is 0.
Interpretation (2) suggests that creativity doesn’t exist and this whole conversation is senseless.