Art and Algorithms

[Cort Haus]

If a human brain, a biological computer, can have consciousness and sense of the aesthetic why couldn't any other sort of computer? (especially ... other biological computing platforms)

Well, yes, I suppose so eventually. Possibly, and if the theists are wrong. I thought we were talking about contemporary or near-future computers, rather than what is surely still science fiction at this point.

[Aeson]

I see, I was referring to the "never?" portion of the OP. I don't know that it ever will happen, but don't see any compelling evidence that it is not possible. Odds are that we destroy our civilization before we get there though. We already have the prerequisites for doing that, and would pass by some more options on the way to human level artistic AI.