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> Can you give a historic example of a human creating "truly novel ideas" that is not the product of mixing and matching existing ideas? The invention of PCR c
by F-Lexx 2y ago
> Can you give a historic example of a human creating "truly novel ideas" that is not the product of mixing and matching existing ideas?
The invention of PCR comes to mind:
> During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, Hofmann said Mullis had told him that LSD had "helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis
- regularfry 2y agohttps://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-of-a-biology-revolution-63126 https://www.iflscience.com/lsd-dna-pcr-the-strange-origins-o... would argue that it was exactly mixing and matching at play here, but that the component parts wouldn't necessarily have been called to mind without the hallucination.
- PaulHoule 2y agoYou don't even need drugs... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#Kekul%C3%A9's_dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#Kekul%C3%A9...