- Your argument should not require appealing to desire to have the word computation be less redundant. (I don't really think there's a meaningful difference between computation and physics, we just generally use the term computation to refer to physical processes which result in useful information.) But why don't we define computation as being "anything that can be done on a conventional computer (with sufficient time and memory)" -- i.e. Turing-computable.
- It is not relevant that we may not know all the physical laws of the universe; what matters only is whether there are laws or not. A scientist cannot cause free will to disappear from the universe simply by learning new facts about the laws of physics. (I would argue that if this were apparently true, then there was no free will to begin with.)
- My understanding of compatabilism is that free will and determinism are compatible; in other words, the laws of physics can give arise to free will (consciousness, as you put it). I think there are some additional twists in compatabilism I don't entirely understand, but that's the gist as far as I have seen. In any case, compatabilism seems to me to be compatible with the idea that one can simulate a human brain; since the simulation and the original would produce the same result, then if one has free will, the other must have free will too.
(Simulatingitmultipletimeswillalwaysresultinthesamething,whichthereforemeansthatit'sthesameconsciousexperience--thesamefreewill--eachtime,andnotdifferentinstancesoffreewill.Inotherwords,consciousnessisfungiblewithrespecttosimulation.)Simulation=computation, so therefore human creativity is computable.
Please note that I'm not arguing that current AIs actually are on the level of human creativity, just that there's no law against that eventually being possible.