Do Computers Ruminate? On the Impossibility of “Thinking-Feeling” in AI Art
Do Computers Ruminate? On the Impossibility of “Thinking-Feeling” in AI Art

Summary/Abstract: Artists do not simply think and feel but incorporate feeling into their artistic thinking process or thinking into their feelings. The computer’s problem is neither that it does not think nor has any feelings (it might have some one day). The difference between a human drawing and a robot drawing is thus not that the former thinks and the latter does not. What matters is the “ruminating” aspect of creation that Wittgenstein alluded to, which Mondrian defined as thinking-feeling. I analyze the importance of randomness in human art and AI art.

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