Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 190.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:59:29 +0100
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0188 market truth, fingerprint machine
On the problem of creative genius -- one would suppose first that one would
need a definition. One would then need a list of people on which we could
obtain general consensus that they were indeed creative geniuses. Perhaps
also a profiling method which would exclude those who were idiots savants or
creative in a non-humanistic field, e.g. mathematics. Then one would need
some method for deciding the characteristics to be polled. This has all
been tried before, mais est-ce cela vaut la chandelle?
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