A self-defining game for one player: On the nature of creativity and the possibility of creative computer programs

The AARON program has been generating original artworks for almost 30 years, but is denied by its own author to the creative. The author characterizes creativity as a directed movement towards an ill-defined but strongly felt end-state for the individual's work as a whole, not as a characteristic of any single work and profoundly knowledge-based in the sense of externalizing the individual's internal world-model and system of belief. He suggests that a creative program would be one that was able to modify the belief-based criteria that inform the rule-base in which expert knowledge is represented, not one that is able simply to modify the rule-base itself.