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There is another question that relates to this subject, and it is equally interesting IMHO. It is also more interesting for design practitioners: Are you a designer or just a tool for supporting decision-making and the process of configuring objects? Look at it as a kind of reverse-Turing test: what are designers doing that leads an observer to think those are products of an intelligent designer and not the product of a machine? It remains to be assessed what "design" actually is, in the hands of designers, as much as it remains to be assessed what it can be inside a machine. ++++++++++ We already had this discussion several times on this list. In the end, there are mainly two positions in this kind of debate: 1. Those who have a deeply rooted belief that design is some kind of unfathomable power bestowed upon human creatures, hence impossible to transfer to machines; 2. Those who think otherwise. Most of the type 1 opinions are based on belief. My opinion is of type 2 because I have no default belief. But type 1 is in good company: even Einstein said that "God doesn't play dice". -- Best regards, ================================== Carlos Pires [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------- Design & New Media MFA // Communication Design PhD Student @ FBA-UL Check the project blog: http://thegolemproject.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------