I mean, there's room for a thought experiment here:
How much of any given individual's ideas are truly original? All the words we use and their meanings were picked up from someone else, and we are just learning to mash and combine them together in different ways. All the ways to portray imagery we either get from our senses or from someone else expressing their senses. Yes, artificial intelligence is scraping together an image, or a story, or audio, from combing the internet and distributing it across its network, but is that not what we do too? Everything you can possibly think can be broken down into composite parts that you got from somewhere else, rather than creating yourself. Are we not working from the dataset of conscious experience?
