A question is: what algorithms does the brain use to make these creative lateral leaps? Are they replicable?
Unless the brain is using physics that we don’t understand or can’t replicate, it seems that, at least theoretically, there should be a way to model what it’s doing with silicon and code.
States like inspiration and creativity seem to correlate in an interesting way with ‘temperature’, ‘top p’, and other LLM inputs. By turning up the randomness and accepting a wider range of output, you get more nonsense, but you also potentially get more novel insights and connections. Human creativity seems to work in a somewhat similar way.
Unless the brain is using physics that we don’t understand or can’t replicate, it seems that, at least theoretically, there should be a way to model what it’s doing with silicon and code.
States like inspiration and creativity seem to correlate in an interesting way with ‘temperature’, ‘top p’, and other LLM inputs. By turning up the randomness and accepting a wider range of output, you get more nonsense, but you also potentially get more novel insights and connections. Human creativity seems to work in a somewhat similar way.