CHECK OUT "MAXI-MIND", MY BOOK ON CREATIVE THINKING!Where do new ideas come from?
It's easy to say that new ideas come from our imagination. Imagination is our ability to visualize beyond what is in front of our eyes. But what is it that allows us to imagine?
It's tempting to say that what we imagine isn't real. That is a common mistake. Imagining is the first step in the process of making something real. Reality is of two kinds -one kind is in the world of the invisible - the other in our physical, visible world. Of the two, the invisible is more real, because it represents cause, while the physical world is an effect.
I realize that is backwards to what we learned as we grew up.
Humanity was once a race of primitive cave and forest dwellers. How did complex devices like the automobile, television, or computer arise from the race that once chased small animals with sticks? How did we come to build civilizations, sciences and bodies of great knowledge?
Come to think of it, how did we learn to chase small animals with sticks?
The answer is linked to the complexity of our intelligence, because creatures of lesser intellect do not exhibit this kind of behaviour. Rabbits today live just like rabbits of ten thousand years ago - so do deer, foxes, birds and mice. But people of today have a life so different from the people of long ago that they are scarcely recognizable.
It is more than just the ability to learn, because there is no way for us to learn of things that don't exist. How could we have learned how to build a television system? Who was there to teach that? No one, until it was invented.
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