It was mentioned that it might be possible for a thought- once thought- becomes available for anyone in the world to pick out of the abstract and conceive as his or her own. This really interested me, if say a thousand people are having the same idea at the same exact time, then that makes it impossible to be truly original. The only way I can see pulling it off would be to be the first one to take your idea public, to enough people who actually listen, and even then you can break it down even further into if you’re the lucky one to be in the right time-zone. Just a thought that i've been kicking around.
Another idea is the ideas that once you speak, write, paint, or express your idea publicly it is no longer your idea, but now belongs to the “outside world”. The only way to have an idea to yourself is to never express it in anyway; even a journal belongs to the outside world- and therefore, takes your idea as its own. Mr. Achtermann said that was a close idea to that of Tolkien, ill have to look into that further- this whole idea expresses my first theory on original thought, I thought I was onto something, but it seems that Tolkien beat me to it. He was first. Another example being that I was talking with a friend of mine tonight and she mentioned building a tent in my backyard and camping out. Shortly after, my neighbor came outside and pitched a tent. My mind was blown and I could only laugh to myself.
Last idea before my chart, Mr., Achtermann also posed the idea that when interacting with another person, how do you know you are getting reality? I took it a closer step down and replaced reality with the word “truth”. How do you know if what you are hearing is really the truth? In my mind, you don’t. You have to trust that what you are hearing is the truth and accept it as such and act based off of that assumption. So on a larger scale, my whole life is a series of assumptions and ill never be sure of anything 100%. One thousand people just had that idea. Only now I have to tag the word “maybe” onto the end of it, because am I sure they did? No, but its my assumption.
Now, as for my chart of the day. Lets look at Decorating. Humans aside from a few species of crustaceans, birds, and mammals decorate their surroundings.
The philosophy of Decorating may be that we decorate to make ourselves feel refreshed in a normally dull atmosphere, to individualize ones-self from the rest of the world by personalizing your room, car, notebook, anything. Feeling separate, to an extent, is a very liberating feeling and it may be true that humans do such to feel that sense of originality.
The animals mentioned above that decorate do it for mating purposes, as far as we can tell today, not for any other reason, and yet, we decorate for many other reasons.
The art of decorating can be explained in the act that we decorate and arrange our surroundings to express who we are as individuals, and as we defined it to be, art is SELF-expression. Craft has a hand quite literally in decorating; we have the skills to decide what looks good where and why it looks that way. Science, again, not too apparent in the act of decorating.
My apologies for the short run down, but I’m tired, and this is running long.
Goodnight- MAC
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Radical doubt -- the position that all that one "knows" is supposition or assumption, and that to be "truthful" one must question everything, doubt everything, even the most apparently firm of ideas -- this idea was proposed by Rene Descartes in his "Meditations on First Philosophy" and "Discourse on Method".
In a practical sense, we are served by assuming some basic consistency in the world, but in any final sense we cannot be said to really know anything certainly. It is an uncomfortable position for some folks.
The "Hundredth Monkey" theory does not necessarily propose that all the beings involved are thinking precisely the same thing, but that some idea or practice has become sufficiently commonplace to suddenly become universal within a community.
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