replace elephant with michelangelo and replace Mahout with the catholic church Bob Talbot wrote: > > > > Can an animal produce art? > > > > > Yes, there is that elephant that paints pictures that people buy. > > <GRIN> > > Yea yea yea? > > Does the elephant actually decide what to paint or is it acting as a > "robot" for its Mahout? > > If it is merely a learned response - it has been trained to paint one > picture or follow the mahout's instructions ... then it is not the > elephant's creation. >
