What do you think about the ability to simulate the creation of art?

This website: http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/project.html
shows a group of scientists created a robot-thing to create “Art.” It has rat-neuron grown over a circuit board, a robotic drawing arm, and a computer interface connecting the two to create drawings. Now I don’t personally believe that these scientists went about the experiment the correct way. There’s too much room for error and human “fiddling” to correctly say that the rat neurons made a drawing.

HOWEVER, it was an interesting article. I am both an artist and a biologist (or trying to be both) and I’m not sure how I feel about people trying to recreate the creative process. Part of me feels like it’s impossible to define, it’s a human characteristic to create art in response to a stimuli, and it would ruin the point to try to put an algorithm behind it. But then the scientist kicks up in me and says there’s no reason why it can’t be traced back into the brain and some chemical pathway that could be recreated. It may be different for everyone else but it’s there…

So I’m just curious what the collective thinks about this idea: scientists trying to come up with a recreation of the creative process via some experimental design, be it robotic, animal, or chemically induced.