As Sir Martyn Poliakoff likes to say (greatly paraphrasing), your mind is like a vegetable soup, and stirring it around surfaces all sorts of interesting bits.

As Sir Martyn Poliakoff likes to say (greatly paraphrasing), your mind is like a vegetable soup, and stirring it around surfaces all sorts of interesting bits. I see this as a great way of stirring things up! Like, once I asked ChatGPT about some ideas I had, and it had hallucinated something which gave me a great idea.