I go to nature to be soothed and healed and have my senses put in tune once more.

John Burroughs

My favorite example of this is the Greek concept of apophenia, which is the idea that humans perceive connections or patterns in random data. We don’t know why this happens, but this feature of our operating system is why we see different shapes in clouds, where, for example, you might see Bart Simpson and I see Pikachu. That creative expression is unique to each of us. How do you model that?

It’s a bit ironic, but our irrationality might be the most defensible asset we have as far as creative endeavours go. That bug is our best feature in a world of rapidly advancing AI systems because it makes us impossible to model.