So my thoughts are stuff like: hg wells. Credited for popularising the idea of time travel, actually coined the phrase “time machine” and was one of only two people who more or less founded an entirely new genre of fiction
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What’s your favourite idea that came out of nowhere? Can be inventions/science but I’m guessing there will be more examples from arts.
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Similarly Jules Verne was like “what if there a dinosaurs in the centre of the planet” and everyone else was like where the fuck did that come from?
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And Lovecraft was at home being a very sad nerdy guy in love with his cousin, just like everybody else, and then was like I dream about giant invisible interdimensional beings with tentacles and a million eyes that are so far outside of human conception...
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... that to look at them means to go instantly insane but not die plus the corner of my bedroom has the wrong angles and I’m going mad and to this day everyone is like “wtf was wrong with Lovecraft?! Jeez Louise”
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And Francis Bacon was like “I’m gonna paint distorted screaming popes on a blank orange background like 100 times and then other related deeply disturbing shit for five decades” because I just keep seeing it in my head...
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The idea that you could win real fights from your back, perfected by the Gracie family of Brazil.
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I'm still not convinced that this is a thing that can happen. Ideas don't come from nowhere, they come from the adjacent possible
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Is that a claim about homotopy in idea-space?
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I'm sometimes perplexed by the elaborate processes required to turn something into a psychotropic. Like how many ideas did you try and then smoke before you got it working . . .
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