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[B]ISSUE 173 "Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways." [/B] (提纲在下一贴里补充)
“Flowing water never become stagnant.” If the world does not add new factors, new ideas, build up new things, the result will be just like the stagnant water. Originality, the word which could be associated with “fresh”,”first”,”initial” is regarded as a strength weapon to offend the that disagreeable consequence. In the contemporary society, lots of emphasizes were drawn down to originality. The concept of originality is so comprehensive that surely including many forms including “thinking something that was never thought before”,” putting old ideas together in new ways” and others as well.
One kind of originality is getting ideas which are purely initial. For example, Sigmund Freud, an Austrian psychology theorist who first import the terms “Id”,"Ego", and “Superego” in to the field of psycholoanalysis.. In 1932, Freud built the structural model for psycholanalysis, defined by the concepts of id, ego and superego, which refer to different aspects of people‘s functioning. Before Freud no one analyze people’s functioning in this way. And each concept was defined by Freud himself. Now in the comptemporary classes for psychology major students when talking about this theory, they need to seek back for the definitions from Freud’s eyes. Although the concepts are not precise enough viewing with a modern perspective, but this unprecedented and initial theory greatly influences the following psychoanalysist.
However, not only the pure initial ideas could be regarded as originality, there’re still some other forms. Specifically speaking, originality could be the ideas which developed by the old ideas. For instance, Mp3 player, a popular potable music player, can save tens or even thousands of songs in it. Generally, its figure is much lighter and smaller than other music traditional music players such like Cassette walkman, or CD player, so it is very convenient to take and use. But in the very beginning, people can only listen to Mp3 music files with a computer. Because the original purpose of inventing this file type is to saving computer disk space (The compact MP3 file is much smaller that normal wave files), not reach to the extent of potable music enjoyment. But the development of technology changed the trend. They got the idea to transplant the core programs into potable equipment, and then people can play the MP3 music files directly. Nowadays some other techniques are connected with MP3 player, such like Lyrics display, digital picture display by LCD which mounted on the player. MP3 player is not an original idea, but import previous technology into new usage. Lyrics display, picture display are also old ideas which already been used in some other electronic products. But when they connect to the MP3 player, new type equipment with new functions immerged just like a novelty.
Besides the two forms listed above, there’re still some other channels to nurture different kinds of originality. An exaggeration of an old idea can produce a new idea, a combination of two or more ideas can reproduce new ideas. And the modification and development of outdated ideas could lead to a fresh viewpoint.
Original presented in different ways and could be created from different channels by varieties of methods. It is dangerous to narrow the concept of originality. On one hand, if one only regard “thinking something that was never thought before” as originality. Then the person will lost a lot of chances to make use of the precedent ideas. Many old ideas are very useful resources, it’s a waste to ignorant them On the other hand, one shouldn’t be satisfied only by revising or developing old ideas. The world is developing, but the old ideas are limited. If one only seeks to the past to reconstruct them, then when the last texture is used up, the new idea has no material to make up. What’s more only using old ideas could narrow one’s mind if it becomes a habit; because so little stimulation on one’s mind that the person got a solitary stereotype of thinking.
In all, originality means the fresh, initial, first things No matter huge or subtle, only if it is not stagnant. Various forms of originality exist in the world .People in the world need to seek them, dicover them and create them. Any kind of rigid definitions could prevent the blooming of oginality, thus set potential barrier to the development of the changing world. |
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