tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post5181572077722302936..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): 'original' ideasgenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-30500001066809933092011-10-20T14:57:10.974-04:002011-10-20T14:57:10.974-04:00Perhaps 'original' is OK but the 'mine...Perhaps 'original' is OK but the 'mine' is a bit off the mark.genkakuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-34657622792823996282011-10-20T14:47:03.248-04:002011-10-20T14:47:03.248-04:00Hi,
I can appreciate that there are patterns in q...Hi,<br /><br />I can appreciate that there are patterns in questions and ideas.<br /><br />Basic questions are relevant to almost any situation or issue: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How? These kind of questions may even be hardwired in our brains so to speak.<br /><br />Individuality and uniqueness may <i>seem</i> apparent when one of the above questions are applied to some aspect of an event or issue. I can see one saying "that's not original", or "that's not really creative."<br /><br />Yet there are <i>breakthroughs</i> I maintain. Lets take a simple case in Art. The first time it occurred to Suerat to use dots of paints to do a picture with may or may not have been original, but from that idea he decided to make a number of paintings some quite large painting of a type never before seen. Others like Van Gogh may be said to have "borrowed" or "stolen" Suerat's idea. Sure, using dots might have occurred to someone else, but Suerat took that idea and ran with it perhaps with the encouragement help of his "friends," "supporters," "agent," "critics", etc.<br /><br />The ideas that Edison brought to life may have occurred to others but circumstances including his famous "99% perspiration" made the ideas "come to life.'<br /><br />Other productive individuals who were genius like Nikola Tesla were sometimes so far out of the box that their contributions were used but their names are often forgotten. Yet there breakthrough inventions continue to influence the world to this day.<br /><br />But to say that Suerat's, or Edison's, or Tesla's, or Einstein's key articulated idea were not original is, I think, just plain wrong.<br /><br />The same can be said of those throughout history who have pushed the envelope of thought or action in a major way: Socrates, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius, etc., etc., etc. through some modern folks like Steve Jobs who may have been more visionary, task master and an extraordinary promoter but not really a scientist, inventor or artist in a more traditional sense.John Smith, US Patent Officernoreply@blogger.com