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Question if every one is just a product of their environment, then how are there original ideas, art, and imagination?

Accepted:
November 24, 2005

Comments

Why can't environment produce original events? Let's say that every human being possesses a unique (original?) DNA sequence. One might say that a DNA sequence is a product of environment. Why not consider "original" ideas in the same manner--that is, as new combinations of precedent ideas?

Would new species count as "original"? What do you mean by original?

Perhaps you mean an utterly new, different, and original idea, art, or imagination. I have my doubts that such things are possible.

I also have my doubts that ideas, art, and imaginations are "products" or environment. What do you mean by "product"? It seems to carry a rather industrial or commercial connotation. Might it be a tendentious term?

Question if every one is just a product of their environment, then how are there original ideas, art, and imagination? Accepted:November 24, 2005

Question if every one is just a product of their environment, then how are there original ideas, art, and imagination?

Accepted:
November 24, 2005