# Novelties on Novelties

Question: "Are there any ideas that are truly new? Or are all new ideas based on previous ideas that were blended together?"

There is only increasingly complex synthesis. Complex synthesis can result in Gestalt forms, but these are traceable to neural synthesis. Bio-reductionism is inescapable. Because you can lesion it away. Paragraph originally posted on Facebook. Accessible in the HighIQWorld group HighIQUnleashed [here.](https://www.facebook.com/groups/highiqunleashed/permalink/2335595026457560/).

Complete novelty is on the tower of novelties atop novelties. Otherwise they are based on new combinations of already existing things that were not formerly combined. 

When something really new appears, it is because whoever created it had intermediate creations that were also unknown to others. Newton, Einstein, Archimedes and others are towering figures, not because of single ideas they generated, but the thousands and perhaps millions of novelties they came up with to pave the way to the greater synthetic forms they *also* created. What is sad, is that necessarily die in unknowability. There is no recording all of the insights. Only some.

If this were not the truth, then one would expect others to immediately grasp the idas created by these figures. Because one would have to assume, that once the shared knowledge has been acquired, anyone would quickly realize what is pointed out to them, for it would be merely a new combination of ideas they already had. But as a matter of fact, that is not how it works. Unique thinkers have to *prepare their audience* to receive their ideas, because they are built from ideas that other would not have had. Thus the greatest thinkers of all time are teachers, and they are very often teachers of subjects and topics people had not considered before. Sometimes, they invent whole new fields and develop them to significant help, all without any assistance, and without much influence. 

This being true, there is no escape from the fact that the ideas that they have are not possible without the cultural preparation that was done for them. This is easy enough to explain, because we can realize that ideas that are new today were not possible in earlier ages or times. We see that many ideas are well ahead of their times, but every idea ever recorded has depended *at least* upon the lexicon in which it was communicated. Very smart people may coin words and unique usages, but noone ever invents there entire vocabulary from scratch. We know that most ideas are incomplete or suffer some defects, and that also is due to the culture from which it was generated. This is also explained by the well known Whorfian hypothesis which explains that perspectives are dependent on the language and culture of origin. Thus someone from another culture may find defects or make improvements upon a theory that someone produced in another language, simply because the thinking that generated the ideas were founded on commitments of earlier thinkers, and yet earlier thinkers, back to the origins of the lanugae itself. This is not to touch on the topic of neuroscience. 
