Comment by gchamonlive

That totally ignores the act of creation just for the sake of it, sheer creativity, pure unproductivity that breeds new kinds of attention.

This idea of the need and compete for scarce resources is important only when resources are scarce. In art, love and caring there is no end to it, so the possibilities are unlimited, categorically, because you aren't looking at a bounded infinitude.

How many ways to represent reality are there between 0 and 1?