Philosophy Wire: Jazz “improvisations”. God’s hand…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-12-31]: Scientists will make robots which will improvise with people playing jazz. [1] Adorono said it a long long time ago. Any improvisation which can be taught (like in jazz) is not an improvisation. We want to program everything. And yet we feel annoyed by the idea of God…

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