Surf these sites: Ashok Goel -- Ashok Goel is an Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Research in various aspects of design includes investigation of the creative exploration involved in solving problems. Delivering What AI Originally Promised - the "Creativity Machine" -- Article on neural networks and creativity. Douglas Hofstadter -- Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach". Imagination Engines, Incorporated -- Imagination Engines builds immense neural network cascades that are capable of human level invention, discovery, and artistic creativity. Holds patents in the area of neural networks, optimization, and the construction of sentient machines. Maggaret A. Boden -- Author of "The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms". Melanie Mitchell -- Currently at the Santa Fe Institute. Melanie Mitchell developed Copycat as part of her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter on cognitive modeling of high-level perception and analogy-making. Stephen L. Thaler -- After witnessing some really great ideas emerge from the near-death experience of artificial neural networks, Thaler decided to add additional nets to automatically observe and filter for any emerging brainstorms. From this network architecture was born the "Creativity Machine" (US Patent 5,659,666). Thaler has proposed such neural cascade as a canonical model of consciousness in which the former net manifests what can only be called a stream of consciousness while the second net develops an attitude about the cognitive turnover within the first net (i.e., the subjective feel of consciousness). William H. Calvin -- Theoretical neurophysiologist and author of "The Cerebral Code", and "How Brains Think".
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