[ExI] Augmentations to Science /was Re: Drugs and creativity

[Will Steinberg]

Yes, but in your case, Adrian, I assume you used a program to create new
data that *you* then had insight from.

The problem with the insight program is that it has to be able to, from
data, make conclusions whose form of statement is not provided for in the
original code.  Does that make sense?  An insight program, in theory, could
be given a set of geological data and derive the laws of calculus.  Or
state the principal of natural selection in English.  It needs to go
"outside the box", which is the whole thing that's confusing about human
insight.

Honestly, it might be congruent to the strong AI problem.
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