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I agree completely with Wandering Author's analysis.

Creativity, in my opinion, is one of the fruits of consciousness, which I believe flows from a spiritual level rather than a physical one. In other words, genuine creativity has little to do with the chemical and electrical processes in our brains; it comes from a much deeper place (There, is that vague enough for you?).

That's not to say that cookie-cutter fiction from a computer isn't possible. But even then I think you have to consider the creativity of the computer programmer when you look at the whole situation. There used to be a a program called "Music Mouse" that would create musical compositions based on where you hovered your mouse pointer on a grid. As I recall, the programmer wanted partial credit for any resulting pieces of music that were released commercially.

I'm not saying machines can't develop souls, by the way. All of my vehicles have come to have definite personalities over the years, and I don't think that's been my imagination at work.

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