[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Case]

> > [Case]
> > Dead Sea Scrolls
> > Nag Hammadi
> > Or the recent rediscovery of Archimedes' "Method" that shows he invented
> > calculus almost 2000 years before Newton.
> > 
> > No?
> [Platt]
> Discovered, rediscovered by individuals. No? 
> 
> [Case]
> Yes, by individuals who thought there were genies in the jars and when
they
> found pages were inclined to either wipe themselves or use them for fire
> starters. They were eventually translated an interpreted by teams of
> researchers. They are also anthologies written by various authors, edited
by
> priests, recopied by scribes and squirreled away by true believers. So it
is
> difficult to pin any of it on anyone in particular.

[Platt]
Glad we agree.

[Case]
Then we are agreeing that the ideas contain are collaborative efforts. There
really is no individual effort to credit or blame?