In life, as on the Internet, progress by indirection is similar to magic via misdirection: It's the process that makes the initial, essential element possible. Exempli gratia: The random, blind, voracious molecular avarice of one material for the atomic constituents of another (i.e, rust) often produces as much beauty as the so-called abstract expressionism of a painstaking Jackson Pollock or a meticulous Mark Rothko.
Does intent have anything to do with the evaluation of art? Could a cunningly contrived automaton produce an original that might pass as a Klee or a Kandinsky ? Probably. How about a Caravaggio similar to Emmaus or a Watteau akin to Embarkation? Probably not.


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