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Nodal Points Digest #1: Deep Creativity, Cellular Minds and Fiction Machines

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Borrowing Charles Broskoski’s usage of this word, nodal points are “any thing that has a hand in shaping how you see the world”. In other words, they are catalysts for future action. They inspire. Nodal points are the search results and our interests are the search algorithm. Like other computation my cognition performs, I sense the usefulness of the search and yet have a hard time describing it. A list is always a good first try: systems that displays open-endedness, or emergent behaviors: evolution, human and machinic creativity, artificial life; artworks that are complex systems themselves, a continuity between a variety of intelligent life forms, inanimate objects and technologies; tools to think about and play around with complex systems; to think the unthinkable. A multidisciplinary artist/engineer’s meandering thoughts on artificial and natural systems. Upgrade to paid I guess a running theme is “systems”. Especially those that evolve, learn, adapt; those that surprise me; those

Nodal Points Digest #1: Deep Creativity, Cellular Minds and Fiction Machines Thoughts on sharing as a practice, AI art's own medium, new book from Greg Egan and Borgesian machines Kat Zhang Jun 05, 2024 86 11 14 Share Borrowing Charles Broskoski’s usage of this word , nodal points are “any thing that has a hand in shaping how you see the world”. In other words, they are catalysts for future action. They inspire. Nodal points are the search results and our interests are the search algorithm. Like other computation my cognition performs, I sense the usefulness of the search and yet have a hard t

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