But Carlos, I’m sure you agree that just because something is hard to
specify doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or is not relevant (like Love for
example. The human emotion, not Terry, whom I'm fairly sure exists.)
I gather from your post that the crux of the matter would be to establish
what is uniquely human about design? Or rather, what is it that humans do,
while designing, that cannot be optimised, or improved by machines? (I
suspect that the answer to this question is as elusive as figuring out why
computers can’t write proper poetry or paint a master piece.)
I will stand by the proposition that design is a human activity; like so
many other human activities, designing can be (and always has been) aided
by tools and machinery. Considering that designing requires, among other
things, the use of (from the top of my human head) intelligence,
creativity, ingenuity and empathy it would seem premature to discard the
presence of a few carbon based creatures during the unfolding of design
activity.
And these are my two posts.
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