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You seem to discount the possibility that ideas are emergent and as they emerge, multiple people at once become aware of them. I am asserting it is Charles For
by adamzwasserman 5mo ago
You seem to discount the possibility that ideas are emergent and as they emerge, multiple people at once become aware of them.
I am asserting it is Charles Fort's "steam engine time". Far from a crank position. It is one that bears serious consideration.
- saghm 5mo agoNo, I'm saying that simultaneous discovery and plagiarism are not philosophically incompatible, and treating them as equivalent is hard to take seriously.