alt Hacker NewsWhen did the last original thought happen then? Clearly thoughts must have been original at some point, or there wouldn't be any at all
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codexb • today at 3:02 PM
Did those original thoughts not build upon all the original thoughts that came before them?
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dooglius • today at 2:34 PM
Technically one of {Newton, Leibniz} was first, but you're missing GP's point
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When did the first homo sapiens exist? Ideas like species evolve. Saying there are no original ideas seems to me an attempt to glibly capture something quite fundamental.