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> However an intrinsic part of the music (to me, anyways) as an art form, is the humanity of it.

I agree with the sentiment. But from a perceptual perspective, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish what is synthetic and what is organic. The trumpets, strings, and keys you hear on a song you like on the radio? It's very probable that they weren't played by humans: they might have been programmed and the sounds come from a massive, hyper sampled sound bank.

If we did an experiment, and recruited even expert musicians, and we asked them to classify sound clips in 'played/programmed' categories, I bet they wouldn't get them right.

David Cope's experiments showed that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jul/11/david-cop...