This is where cognition departs from mere pattern recognition and become an abstraction machine
One of the strangest things about thinking is our ability to create new thoughts, beyond what we can experience, by combining known concepts
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Have you read the Cormac McCarthy essay in the recent
@NautilusMag? He hits on this.
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Roger Penrose has argued that the ability to create new concepts is what will differentiate human brains and "thinking computers".
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e.g., General Relativity, created by Einstein, was not an extension of Newtonian Gravity but instead created new concepts (curved spacetime)
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Stuart Kauffman talks about this in the context of evolution and complexity and has a nice phrase for it: "the adjacent possible".
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i wonder how much of novel thought is >combination of observed patterns?
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