Hmm it's close, I suppose, but I rather meant something new than necessarily identical to what's known, still based on the same kind of "rules" which are not the actual causes. Compare, in 3D software technology, scanline or
raytracing renderers (rays are emitted from the camera, instead of the lights) with physically accurate ones. The former, which are much faster, are not strictly based on optical laws, but create the image of the scene based on some algorithms that simply *can* recreate them as they appear to people. You just look in all the knowledge database and figure out what can recreate that, without. The same thing you could tell about artificial intelligence, those "people" don't actually feel like having a snack or something. Oh, and Lara Croft became a sex-symbol without even being born on this earth.
Don't take these examples as representative, it's just what comes to my mind that you can make the connection, not everything is technology-related. Besides, these algorithms can be extrapolated to create imaginary "natural" things that are actually impossible in reality.