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Everything has to come from experience I think, but it doesn't always feel like that. I know some songwriters say it's like a fountain they cannot turn off, coming from somewhere else. Often when I have a problem I am stuck on, letting it go and sleeping works, I can wake up knowing things I didn't know when I fell asleep.
Things coming from experience doesn't rule out original, unique or novel ideas at all, though.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I can't really say either way. Like the enormity of human knowledge intuitively implies a likely probability of unique thought, but I struggle to name an example.
I have been wondering if my missing intuitive connection here is the scope of human experience.
I think sociologists call it tribal epistemology, which posits that humans primarily rely on their immediate social groups for information and understanding, often finding it difficult to grasp perspectives beyond these. I get the impression the scope of human knowledge and creativity may be directly caused by the true scale of human experience that we struggle to comprehend.