Quote from: phillipsjk on October 13, 2014, 08:58:56 AM

I vaguely recall believing I "owned" my ideas. I don't know if that was nature or nurture.

I reckon you were still in the stage of childhood egocentrism - unfortunately, it is a stage that seems to be not only not completely passed through by many adults, but positively encouraged on a consumerist/cultural level.

BTW. I tend to agree regarding Freicoin - but it would require a seismic shift in consciousness for it to ever catch on (in the west at least - I believe demurrage has its roots in Islam ?)

Quote from: herzmeister on October 13, 2014, 02:52:01 PM

Quote from: practicaldreamer on October 13, 2014, 12:41:28 PM

Great insight. You are backed up philosophically by Wittgenstein when he said that there is no private language - and by Chomsky, by implication, in his ideas of how we acquire language.

Right, everything is a remix, we're only standing on the shoulders of giants, etc...

Still, in German we (of course) have a word to describe the level of novelty and originality: Schöpfungshöhe

I wish I could read that link - its in german and I wasn't very succesful in getting a translation. I'd love to know how the germans decide on an individuals level of novelty and originality.

Do we create ? Or do we discover ?