Re: UKNM: RE: Creativity

[Ashley Pomeroy]

>>>>in fact it's very difficult to think that two people come up with the

same creative thought at exactly the same time.<<<<


As a side-issue there's something that Charles Fort (early 20th-century

chronicler of the strange) called 'steam-engine-time' - the odd habit that

ideas have of striking lots of people at a certain time, as if they only

allowed themselves to be thought when they were good and ready.

When something new is on the verge of breaking, it always seems to be

championed by lots of people at the same time; radio, television, steam

engines, cars and aeroplanes were all invented, often independently, by

different teams of people simultaneously.


The occasional flash of lightning would be something like penecillin, or

the observation that things must fall to earth for a reason - so perhaps

there are two kinds of ideas, those that are constantly evolving, and

those that just pop into being from nowhere.


Here's something interesting, too:

http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/IGOTS/fillo157.jpg

It's a picture from a book called 'Can it be Done?' by somebody called Ray

Gross from 1933.


-

"In the land of the blind, the blindest man is king"

Ashley Pomeroy -

arpslab [dot] org

 - http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/


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