The feeling of creative control is an illusion: the work has its own destiny and does not belong to the person making it.

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• A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness DDDaniel Dennett8 Jan 2013creativity
• A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new. MWMatt Webb4 Sept 2026creativity
• AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning. NLNathan Lambert10 Sept 2026creativity

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