| ▲ | 0xEF 9 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Can you give us an example of a new idea that is not derivative of something that already exists? Should only take about a minute. Snark aside (and apologies), there's absolutely nothing wrong with the "no new ideas" take and nobody should think there is. Humans tend to work collectively, try as we might to do or appear otherwise, and often come to the same conclusions through reasoning and logic. No one-person truly invented the light bulb, etc, when really all inventive thought is branches of derivative thought as we build our collective knowledgebase. A better question would be how many novel ideas are the logical conclusion of branches of derivative thought and how many are tangential brought about by the injection of our irrationally. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | QuantumNomad_ 7 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> a new idea that is not derivative of something that already exists? Should only take about a minute. A child is born every 4.4 seconds. But it took me and my girlfriend over 9 months to birth one! Even if an original idea did show up every minute globally, does not mean that it takes only a minute to come up with the idea. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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