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Post Subject: Pulling out spaghetti stringsPosted by N-set on: 11/18/2021
Rowuk, seemingly you would like to see the creative process as sort of a clock-work machine where every step is a logical consequence of the previous. It doesn't work like that. To be precise it's only a part of the story. There has been an ongoing, hot debate weather the Nature is random or deterministic, lasting almost a century and initiated by the discovery of quantum mechanics (which was to some extent accidental - e.g. Planck had no slightest idea of what he was doing). Some circa 10 years ago Martin Heisenberg, a biologists, a son of one of the fathers of quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg, shook the ground by publishing an article in a high impact journal (Nature was it?) saying IIRC that in biological systems, the evolution is a mix of both: random processes followed by more systematic, targeted development. What reading it I could not get what all the excitement was all about as the view is very natural and logical. For example, I've always viewed my own thought processes in a similar fashion: There is a mix of +/- random thoughts and keeping my mind as open as I can, I pick ones that look promising and develop them by logical, clock-work like mechanical process. It is like looking at a random mix of spaghetti on a plate, all intertwined and entangled with each other, and picking the string that you like the most and then pulling it out of the mix until its logical end. I have a feeling something similar happens here: An accidental (=random) discovery of Dannoys serves a starting point to a series of logical steps leading in an evolutionary process to a, hopefully, more developed concept -- Remedies the Beauty. I'm sure Romy will pull this spaghetti out till its very end.
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