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I, frankly, believe that computers have far more potential for originality than humans do.
I don't see how this is possible seen as all computers are built and programmed... BY_HUMANS.
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You have clearly never programmed a computer before, for if you had, you would know that computers often do things that their programmers do not expect.
Generally this is undesirable (an unexpected behavior is most often called a 'bug'), but in this case it works to our advantage. We simply program a computer according to a set of rules for composition, and then let it loose, to see what it creates. All of its creations will be according to the rules, but that does not mean that they will be predictable, as long as the rules are flexible enough. Anyone who says that a computer could not be programmed so flexibly is simply not using their imagination.
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To me, the heart and soul is where we transcend all of this and actually begin to feel music, truly enjoying it for what it is.
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I have a great love for pop music, so I am not guilty of enjoying music only on an intellectual level. That said, I may indeed be completely stuck in on a lower level of musical enjoyment than you: a primitive, reptilian level of enjoyment. Perhaps I only enjoy music on the superficial level of having uniform, logical harmonic sounds reaching my ears in a rhythmically organized fashion. Perhaps I'm completely missing out on the "soul" of the music.
Of course, if this is the case, then there are evidently many people like me, since many of us did indeed enjoy the fake Bach. For us, a computer composer would be perfectly sufficient: we would never the know the difference, would never hear the ultimate mechanical soullessness lying under the surface of the music.
Now, I can't say that I particularly envy your sensitivity to the "soul" content of music. In fact, I believe it to be a disadvantage: for, with my own insensitivity, I can enjoy pieces of music that you cannot.