The ancient Egyptians had a saying, "Nothing is new under the sun", and so it still is today: we see merely variations, mutations, copies or parodies of what is evolved from nature, even in our own "creations". If we look around the BigThink site, we will find more questions than we will actual "ideas". This is wjhat we are actually looking for, answers to questions. And there are a lot of Important Questions that beg to be answered, questions that have to do with the very survival of our species. And i would submit, that there really is one answer which would lead us to all other answers: (How)Is it possible for mankind to live in balance with the rest of nature?
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H Paul Lillebo on January 21, 2008, 3:30 AM
Yes, today’s ideas are “merely variations, mutations…” of previous thought. But a chess set has only 32 old unchanging pieces, and yet they can be arranged into billions of positions, millions of which have never been seen. And our 100 billion brain cells can form thousands of trillions of different patterns of connections, yielding new thought out of old material.
I agree with sentient that the key to our species’ survival is to find, at long last, our proper accommodation to the Earth and all its life, including other humans.
H Paul Lillebo
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Edward C on January 22, 2008, 10:51 PM
I dunno, I’m still waiting for them to invent spaceships which travel at light-speed…
Bruce Allen on January 31, 2008, 2:29 AM
Nameless — the INVENTION of such space-ships may happen within the next hundred years. However, the prototype may not be BUILT before the Sun burns out.
As an interesting reference to the subject-line, I point out that Einstein had an early battle with the Patents-Office – they wanted to close down because “everything had already been invented”.
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