Is every idea a modified version of another idea? Are opinions just combinations of ideas? The answer to this question depends on your “new” understanding. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not enough for an idea to be new that someone hasn’t thought of it before. For me, to define a new idea as new is to ask the question whether it reflects a view beyond its century. To criticize the subject in a different way using another ideology instead of the perspective that everyone is looking at is not to create a thought, it just means that you have combined your thoughts with your general knowledge. I mean, the point is that a new idea is not created, a new idea is given.
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
-Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
We should try as we may to create an original idea, we have been influenced by the things we have seen and read. Our task is to gather as great a variety of images and ideas as possible and arrange them in such a way that they exactly meet the requirements of the project we have in front of us. If we do our job well, the problem we were given and the solution we find will align perfectly. Everything that you say was never thought of until now was once thought of in Rome, Athens, Egypt before Christ, or by a child dreaming in his bed right now, everything was thought of, but because not every idea was recorded, we judge everything as a new idea.
Ideas are formed according to needs and goals, and since history repeats itself in a cycle, what happened was the same and the same in thoughts. Well, how have we developed despite the same or similar events, that’s where individuals come into play. Innovative progressives who have outlived their era, visionary philosophers, scientists, and historians. The things that cause new inventions and ideas are products of thinking differently. And they are not a discovery but an invention, but even a brand new idea cannot be said to be completely new because it is based on other ideas or events in essence. And if we can’t get something exactly, we can’t put it in a definite term.
New ideas are just new combinations. But this is not a bad thing, because since factors are constantly being added to the possibility of infinite combinations, these combinations are nevertheless special and difficult to combine. And because of the infinite possibility of combinations, new works that will be produced, ideas that will be thought out and interpreted, will not end.
Link to the book that i used as refrence (Mark Twain’s) u should read it definitely !
