Many people will argue that human ideas are no longer original and that every idea was conceived out of something which was conceived of something else, all beginning with, in this case, creationism, God, and the realm of forms. However, there is a blatant contradiction in that ideas are not exactly the same as technological items. Technological advances have been made since we lived in caves and saw that it made foraging for meat easier if we put an arrowhead on a spear. (Side point: Since this is Art and Philosophy, I'd like to add that also since we lived in caves, we have been expressing ourselves artistically with cave paintings and creations. Humans are unable to not create things, often beautiful products of our minds). But an idea or concept is not the same as a spear, or say a firearm. How they are similar I will say: they have both advanced from their initial (if spear and idea, whatever it was, was the first of its kind) origin.
I personally believe the opposite of this and I do not believe that all creativity and new thought has ended. However, "new" is careful word because I say something is new just for general understanding, but nothing is truly "new." Every creative idea or thought came from something previous to it. For example, none of William Shakespeare's plays are actually original plot lines, they originate from Greek stories and myths, but the eloquent language and depiction of human emotion, which is a timeless element because it grows stronger in time for each human who experiences it, is what one could consider "new."
As for the inventor, the inventor or innovator must take ideas from nature which existed here first. You mentioned that you had not seen any plant-couches lately, but what about logs? Are they not basically tree-couches?
No comments:
Post a Comment