
3.5 Driessens and Verstappen~An Alternative Approach
evolution." Rooke's plan suggests another interesting limit for aesthetic evolu-
tion; in a quest for aesthetic richness and variety, the formal models involved
seem to become more complex, more dynamic, and more similar to the biologi-
cal structures they imitate. As aesthetic evolution becomes more powerful, and
its evolved artifacts become more complex, they may also become more lifelike.
At some mythical point, the artwork may attain a kind of autonomy, a kind of life:
The human artistic process will have finally exceeded itself.
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