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 ?)
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:
SchöpfungshöheI 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 ?