In evaluating creative or intellectual output, the question should be 'Does it elevate us?' rather than 'What made it?' — judging origin rather than quality emphasizes the worst parts of human nature.

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• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.785
• The artist should not express his feelings into the work; instead the work should generate feeling in the observer.claim0.779
• The results are more widely applicable; similar results will come from asking people in other cultures to answer analogous questions.claim0.776
  Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.775
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.774
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• The zero-sum view of intelligence — that recognizing shared features between AI and humans devalues humans — must be abandoned as humanity matures.claim0.773
  Argues that the impulse to sharply demarcate humans from AI stems from misguided zero-sum thinking
• Inventiveness, creativity, and discovery are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in an environment.claim0.773
  The central axiom of Nicholson's theory, establishing the causal relationship between environmental complexity and human cognitive/creative capacity.
• Proving that a program meets accomplishment specifications must be based on assumptions about the world, the information it makes available to the program and the effects of the program's actions as well as on facts about the program itself.claim0.773
  Claim about the nature of accomplishment verification.