TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Saturday, April 16, 2005
Eunice... You know me well enough that this is something that I for one would believe to be impossible but it's a point worth thinking about. Shall we consider that in our studies of how the human body works and if by some miracle we were able to advance our knowledge so much that we were able to reproduce exactly those chemical processes that happen within our body - so much so that it would indistinguishable from man, is this creation man or robot? If our emotions and our irrational abilities were able to reproduced, would our creation no longer be considered a robot simply from the fact that we were able to give something akin to free choice? Wherein lies the essence of being human?

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[ recommended for discussion ]
Existentialism is A Humanism, Essay by Sarte
preface to the lyrical ballads
the trial
heidegger's what calls for thinking
When Life Almost Died (deals with the Permian mass Extinction)
elizabeth costello
the god of small things
jung's aion
foucault's pendulum
coetzee's nobel acceptance speech
faulkner's nobel acceptance speech
koestler's The Act of Creation: part one, the jester
my mother and the roomer
Tao, the Greeks, and other important things
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

endgame
the book of job
Trilobites
joseph campbell