Maybe the universe is just a consciousness and we’re just living in it’s imagination, almost like a simulation but not quite.

Generally your heart cells and neurons don’t really replace themselves (neurons literally can’t divide/replicate and come from stem cells in the ventricles). So I think this is true for every other cell except for these two organs.

Don’t forget the glial cells! They move around neurons, and even listen to their electrical activity (astrocytes). They are also responsible for the amount of myelination on axons (oligodendrocytes/Schwann cells)

Yes, the artist and the AI create original works. However, there is a difference in how ai vs humans can be inspired.

The difference between an artist and a neural network is that an artist can take inspiration and make it their own by incorporating their own ideas. A neural network actively tries to generalize work in order to reduce a cost function. The universal approximation theorem also tells us that neural networks approximate continuous functions, meaning they are following a predetermined pattern. In this case, inspiration for neural comes from generalizing other works (matching the distribution), which creates original works, but does not allow for the AI to incorporate its own unique ideas (since it’s mathematically not designed to)

It technically generalizes a data distribution. So I guess it more so copies style. The works themselves are original.