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I didn't say ideas, I was referring to the rearrangement of matter and energy. Music and sounds and just rearrangements of basic "atoms" that have been around

• pj 17y ago
  Even if you want to go that route, I would still argue that due to the vast number of combinations of atoms in 3D space, there are certainly some that have never before existed in history popping up still today. Lots of the periodic table was created by Humans, which didn't exist at some point in history: http://www.ptable.com/ http://www.ptable.com/ Sure, they could exist in a black hole or whatever, but really what matters is whether or not the material is new to consciousness and exists in memory and many new thoughts/arragements of atoms/etc are exactly that -- new to consciousness.