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(continued)  Archive Category: Robots & AI   No. I think it's
channeled my creativity in certain directions. Take Fats Waller
- a great jazz musician. He just immersed himself in jazz. And
he became more and more creative as he immersed himself more
deeply. A deep immersion in anything makes you more creative, if
you're creative to begin with. Constantly honing your faculties
enhances you.  But I'm a bit wary of the idea that by thinking
about creativity I can tweak the mechanisms that are responsible
for my creativity. Some people say that by studying parallel
processing, parallel hardware, parallel this and that, we
develop a whole new paradigm for thought that will make us think
differently. That's a really weird claim. It seems no more
likely to me than that it will alter the mechanisms of our
digestive tract. We can't modify those things! There's a fine
line between what it means to have