The sensitive, open creator

The Creator

An interactive performance work. " Once the instrument is created, its operational requirements shape the form of its members " Project Description This art project is a continuation of my work from last semester. I am currently working on the non-trivial problem of large scale robotic control of a marionette-type puppet. I am focusing as well on the control environment or the 'world' of the Cr...

Artificial Intelligence and the Creator

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great strides in five decades. Some scientists believe it is merely a matter of time before AI achieves human levels of intelligence. They base their argument on the fact that any human act which can be reduced to algorithms (there are theorists who argue that this includes everything) can be emulated by a computer program. An algorithm is a step by step pr...

Closer to the Creator : Temporal

Evolution and a Creator

This book may be an important contribution to an argument developing in the scientific world about the origin of man. Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection was in its time a concept so heretical that it took Darwin, a Christian believer, many years before he could commit himself to expound it. It is now so universally accepted that to question it or to seek to modify it is almost eq...

Cloning: the human as created co-creator?

Certain events settle themselves in the collective memory of humankind where they keep functioning for decades as points of reference for future generations. The announcement of the successful cloning of Dolly was such an event. Every one of us will remember this thought-provoking occasion or will, at least, be confronted with the extended media coverage of this breakthrough in medical science....