It can of course. The same way I can just produce random noise and say it is music (avant-garde), and those who don't like just understand nothing in art.
But for me this opus has no real meaning.
In this sense, it's relevant to the discussion because it may appear to have been created by Markov chains whereas in fact it's intelligently molded and makes (more and more interesting) sense from the many perspectives you start to have as you spend your life with it.
Excellent project here, which even from reading the first page you'll have an a-ha moment: http://www.wakeinprogress.com/2010/10/introduction-to-charac...