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>I don't believe any amount of technology will ever remove a human out of a creative task. Technology can offer tools and speed and power, but it is worth nothing without a creative mind to make use of it.

This might not be quite what you meant, but if creativity is not a computable function, what do you think it is?

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Simple. It's an emotional one. The one thing I doubt a computer could truly achieve.

Consider from Star Trek, Data's quest to understand laughter. He could replicate it. He could understand it. But he could never feel it.

Emotions are chemical reactions. I don't know why you think those couldn't be simulated.

And Star Trek is fiction. Trying to use its storyline as evidence of anything is, uh, misguided.

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