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RE: Over 500 Followers! Thank you, but I need a break from Steemit
Thanks! I am already rapidly "devouring" it :-) Hopefully I'll be able to offer some intelligent comment.
As an aside (since this is a public post rather than private) - I value content that either:
- offers clear reasoning I have not encountered before,
or - offers new concepts (or twists on old) that I have not encountered before.
I don't much value posts that offer opinion/belief only (no supporting reasoning/thought-processes) although given a choice, I much prefer opinion to belief.
Curious to hear which ideas you will label "original".
My interest doesn't really require "original", just "new to me" (from a non-me source :-).
I am not at all sure if "original" has any (useful) meaning other than relatively or by degree as EVERYthing CAN only build on that which came before.
One of the things that attracts me to writings is if I have had similar musings of my own.
Other folks' views not only present me a new viewpoint/perspective and reasoning (hopefully) but also tend to lend perhaps just the tiniest bit of additional (dis)credence to the conception.
"Original concepts" are of course compounded from concepts that came before. But what makes a concept original in my definition, is that the combination of the known concepts used has not been disclosed before. If there is utility to such an "original concept", this also enhances to the originality, as this utility obviously was not brought in connection with the combination that is novel per se. In other words, the utility also inherits originality from the novelty of combination, but simultaeously adds to the originality by rendering the ontology of the new compounded concept richer. Does this make sense to you?