> You know my favourite bit of that story? I just made it up. Yeah, it's not true. There is no Morgan. Ooh! It's very unsatisfying, isn't it? But I saw him in my head. I saw Morgan in my head.
> Why is it we can feel so robbed when someone tells us a story we just heard isn't true, and yet so satisfied at the end of a fictional novel? I don't know. I don't know.
-- Randy Writes a Novel
If the thing made by a machine is indistinguishable from the thing made by a human, the thing made by a human will be more valuable, simply because being made by a human is an opportunity for a story, and we humans like and value stories.
> Why is it we can feel so robbed when someone tells us a story we just heard isn't true, and yet so satisfied at the end of a fictional novel? I don't know. I don't know.
-- Randy Writes a Novel
If the thing made by a machine is indistinguishable from the thing made by a human, the thing made by a human will be more valuable, simply because being made by a human is an opportunity for a story, and we humans like and value stories.