>You're moving the goalposts
No, I'm not. Re-read what I wrote:
>how difficult it is to recreate an artistic work, or something very similar to it, especially without having seen it before
You don't need to be telepathic to recreate something someone else has made if the creative space for a given medium contains a small number of "interesting" solutions. One time when I was a teenager playing around in QuickBASIC I independently rediscovered H trees. Did I read the mind of the person who first discovered them, or is it that the space of symmetric binary trees where each branch is a constant ratio of its ancestor small enough that I was bound to find them?
If you think nobody is trying to pass off something so abstract (I would say, with so few bits) as art, consider this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_(artist)
>By this definition, this comment of mine is peak artistic merit. Nobody could've created it without seeing it here — except me, just now!
Well, I would say so. I don't know how to argue that it's not. Do you?
No, I'm not. Re-read what I wrote:
>how difficult it is to recreate an artistic work, or something very similar to it, especially without having seen it before
You don't need to be telepathic to recreate something someone else has made if the creative space for a given medium contains a small number of "interesting" solutions. One time when I was a teenager playing around in QuickBASIC I independently rediscovered H trees. Did I read the mind of the person who first discovered them, or is it that the space of symmetric binary trees where each branch is a constant ratio of its ancestor small enough that I was bound to find them?
If you think nobody is trying to pass off something so abstract (I would say, with so few bits) as art, consider this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_(artist)
>By this definition, this comment of mine is peak artistic merit. Nobody could've created it without seeing it here — except me, just now!
Well, I would say so. I don't know how to argue that it's not. Do you?