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Big Picture Science

Your cat is smart, but its abil­i­ty to chore­o­graph a bal­let or write com­put­er code isn’t great. A lot of ani­mals are indus­tri­ous and clever, but humans are the only ani­mal that is unique­ly inge­nious and creative. 

Neu­ro­sci­en­tist David Eagle­man and com­pos­er Antho­ny Brandt dis­cuss how human cre­ativ­i­ty has reshaped the world. Find out what is going on in your brain when you write a nov­el, paint a water­col­or, or build a whatchamacal­lit in your garage.

But is Homo sapi­ens’ claim on cre­ativ­i­ty des­tined to be short-lived? Why both Eagle­man and Brandt are pre­pared to step aside when arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence can do their jobs.

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