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After that, the great classical improvisers were probably organists in the 20th century, like Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) and Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984). Cochereau created vast, highly personal, symphonic forms with dazzling orchestral registration.
Thank goodness viruses never mutate!
They need a new market. This is precisely the kind of AI system I'd love to use.
Another way of phrasing it which highlights the fallacy is:
"In a nutshell, the problem is this: You’re alive. But if you’re just made of non-alive matter, why and how exactly could life arise from that?"
Just because we don't know exactly how life arose from non-biotic matter doesn't mean that non-biotic matter is alive. And just because we don't know how consciousness arose, exactly, doesn't mean that all matter is conscious.
Unlike Michelangelo he wasn't: - a sculptor - an architect - a poet - or a military engineer
When you spend decades erasing the definition of art you can't act surprised when someone finds ways to exploit it ...