[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Gene M <boredandunstable at gmail.com>:


> Having had the experience of coming up with ideas collectively, I'm not sure
> I buy this at all. Haven't you ever been in a group where one person says an
> idea and each person succesively adds onto it, growing the idea,
> aggrandizing it until it is greater than each individual idea? Each person
> spinning it, changing it slightly so that no single person can say which one
> of us made it, but each one takes great pride in it. This is my idea of
> collective thought. It happens, I've participated in it.

Please cite one idea resulting from brainstorming that attains the significance
of ideas of Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Ampere, Helmholtz, Hertz, Curie, Plank, 
Eintein and a thousand and one other individuals who are credited with achieiving
great things in the arts and sciences.

Platt


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