Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:01:59 01/14/99
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Hi Don: Blas Uri has said what I wanted to say very shortly and clearly. Nevertheles, let me repeat his point: you are stuck in the idea that nobody will learn nothing from the itteration. Of course different ideas cannot be mixed just like a recipe for a drink. All of us understand that. But you miss that in this field as in any other, no matter how much people is married with his pet ideas, sooner or later at least one of the guys engaged in the matter get a "click" in order to creater a superior idea on the ground of the existent ones. It is what Karl Marx and Hegel called the dialectic jump: you put two contradictory ideas facing one to another and the result is a new sinthesis superior to both. I believe as you that creativity happens in the mind of one guy, BUT thta creativity jump in the brain of one guy is based in what the gu has learned from mnay other people, in fact thorugh cooperation. Coopretaion coulod be direct, like in a team, or can be indirect, just because you have learned what other guys say or do. The spark, I repeat, happens here, in this spot, but the heat, the material to burn, etc, is a collective endeavour. I know you know this, of course, but maybe you are too much married with the -in my humble opinion- idea that iteration of ideas cannot produce anything but a akward Frankestein. Well, many times it is so, but sometimes not. At least this is a non closed issue, don't you believe? fernando
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