Wow! I hadn't heard of Professor Cope, and his compositional macintosh but I can't say I'm that surprised.
I have to agree with Dr. Hofstader (yes, that Hofstader) that it is a bit unnerving to think that a mere information processing system could produce something that was as Beautiful as a bach fugue. On the other hand it does give me hope for the idea of computer art as an authentic form that creates both artifacts of creativity and creative artifacts. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
