What is creativity, something we don’t ever think of, but we are always indulged in it. Someone who said the word "Hello" on the phone never thought he’d be so creative that the whole world to come after him would be copying him.
But what is the relationship between creativity and copying? It is hard to tell! One might take this in the simple manner that copying is all but using someone’s elses thought, and creativity is nothing but new thoughts.
But my dear friends, can we ever differentiate between new and old? They have a similar relationship as there is between creativity and copying.
When we tend to be creative, we use ideas that have already been formed by others, these ideas are then transformed in our mind and we use the Base Idea along with other ideas to form a New Idea, as we call it.
The main focus here is that nothing is formed out of nothing, hence we have to put inputs to get the required outputs. But should we call this mix of old ideas as something new and pure? Certainly it is open to discussion.
But this argument may lead to one fundamental question of the origin of the First Idea. Where did these first few ideas come from? We did recognize the fact that all the ideas around us are a combinatio of old ideas. But there are these parent ideas whose combination evolved all the other ideas. Certainly the parent ideas are not Human work (whether social or synthetic), but is rather the work of Nature.
Hence to imply, I would personally appreciate my opinion of Nature being the source of the "Parent Ideas".
So, if it has always been Nature through which ideas have evolved, then is it right to call our impure combinations as orginal work?
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