Are there any more "original thoughts" to be had on this earth?

Question

A popular theory has it that there are no longer any original thoughts or ideas to be had, ever again, on earth. They say that there is nothing we can think of, imagine or perceive that hasn't already been done. This is so daunting and soul destroying... so is it really true??

Guys.... cool it!
I'm not talking about inventions, or cures, etc... I am exploring the theory that no matter what THOUGHT you may try to THINK.... it's been thought of before. I know this is a very deep question to contemplate, but...... well, heck.... just try THINKING ABOUT THAT!!

For MickH and Gaz : [and all]
The way you have strung together your nonsensical sentence, Mick, is not the point I'm trying to make... but the fact that you THOUGHT of doing that IS! I believe many others have thought of replying with gibberish to show they're original..although it cant be said for sure, because you were the only one to actually do so. But that just goes to prove the depth of my question.

Answer 1

As a little birdie told me earlier, you'd find it hard to watch TV with the energy of, or in, a flame.

As for there being nothing new under the sun, it's possible but what about within it.

For all you know their could be a quantum gate or gravity well at the centre of this planet that transports you to a pure thought dimension where anything is possible.

Or maybe you come back down here into a new form and get to experience life from all perspectives.

Or maybe your energy goes toward the formation of a complete new planetoid itself and You become a living planet.

Or maybe you become space and squash the living daylights out of all light or expand it to infinity.

You could just be a twinkling in the eye of the entire known observable universe or just 1 corpuscle in its form.

Human intellect is unbounded, there are things out there that you don't even know exist yet.

Or have ever seen.

Answer 2

Impossible because there is way to much that we have yet to learn. Haven't found a cure for aids, for cancer, haven't discovered an alternative fuel, etc. Even Einstein only used 18% of his brain power. Someday someone will come along that can use 19%. That's the problems is everyone believes in a sum zero world . There's only so much oil, so many jobs, so many people that that's just not true.

Do you think technology grows without original thoughts or ideas? Our technology is growing in leaps and bounds never before imagined and it's only started. The internet will even expand that was we come up with better and better ways to share knowledge and ideas. A plant grows like a linear number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Technology depends on the fields surrounding a certain field to expand before it can, example automotive technology can't expand until fuel technology expands. Because of that technology expands as a ratio. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. We are just at the beginning of the boom of technology. Technology gap is define as the gap between the technology we're using and the technology we have. The gap is so wide today that by the time you get something home, something better has already been developed. So whoever thought that original thoughts are done is just about as closed minded as a safe with no key and no combination to unlock it.

Answer 3

Oh really? So that's why society keeps advancing? Have you ever heard of anything called an invention? Back in the old days, there didn't used to be such things as computers, or even electricity. But other people had original thoughts that has abled us to use computers and drive our 2007 cars and what not. So that theory is absoulutely not true and is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

So Martin Luther King, you see that every day, right?
Malcom X,
Rosa Parks,
Abraham Lincoln,
anybody influential, these people are famous and forever will live down in books. Nobody stood up against prejudism like Martin Luther King did. And nobody has like him since.

That's why new things always come out. Whenever you hear of something new, it is called new for a reason. The new Windows Vista, where do you think Yahoo Answers came from? What, somebody already thought of this and has a site just like this? (and as popular)? Ya, I see playstation 3's all the time, I saw one when I was 10, they are just bringing it back now. Do you see now.

Answer 4

I understand why you would ask that. I have a creative IQ of over 160. I can come up with some off the wall stuff that you would think no one in there right mind would think of. Then I look it up online and there it is. My, what I thought was an original idea, in someone elses words. What a heartbreaking process to come up with things so wonderful over and over and see someone else has thought it. In some areas, geometry one area I mess with it all the time. Yet everything is done.

Answer 5

I think that every Nobel thought, which comes from deep within you and is for the ' WE ' and not ' I ' are original thought.
As things are changing every moment, then we are the one who can think for this moment and create something for this time of era. That can not have been done by the people from the far away past. Today we are able to communicate through Internet, 50 years back people could not.

Answer 6

Imagination is infinite.

We see many re-occurring patterns because they work, or we are challenging them to make them work (despite what history has already learned). Since what works produces desired results, many times we do not need to go out of our comfort zone to explore the unknown. However, part of being human is to explore and to advance. So, usually there is someone somewhere who's exploring or challenging ways, idea's, and values.

Yes, we still have many original thoughts to happen since the imagination is infinite.

Answer 7

Of course there are, all thoughts are original as no two people can comprehend things the same way. We only know things based on our individual experiences, so even if we come up with similar ideas they are still dervied from different thought processes.

Answer 8

I don't think that we have run out of ideas, but I do feel that ideas are shared across space or time.... any great idea is not solely owned by the person who published it. Intellectual breakthroughs have happened simultaneously in various places by different people, saying to me that once an idea exists its fair game... to chew on ...or build upon

Answer 9

Every thought of every mind on earth is completely unique and original. Though many may seem to be very similar, no two are exactly alike.

Answer 10

"There's nothing new under the sun."

Man is creative by nature so I don't think we're done inventing/founding new concepts, machines, etc.

I think the idea that you asked about, though, comes from another idea that the motivation to create new things is always the same.