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Whose song is it?
A musician, HE-2, leaves a song unfinished. His AI copy, the beta, completes it from the same musical material. If inspiration passes through both of them from a source neither owns, whose name should the song carry?
Plato compares inspiration to a current passing from a source through poet and performer, like linked iron rings.
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- 1The beta's: the current ran clean through him, so he actually transmitted it.
- 2HE-2's: the stems and the intended circuit were his; the beta only finished it.
- 3No one's: a ring has no name, only conduction; 'maker' is the wrong category.
- 4The source's: the only non-replaceable point in the chain is whatever started the current.
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