[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[David]

Hey Platt, Gene

[Gene]
> 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.

[Platt]
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.

Sure we could not find one resulting from what we in this day and age
recognize as "brainstorming".  I think brainstorming is a cheesy concept
that has come out of business schools to try and promote what was once
naturally just considered ongoing dialogue between thoughtful people to
create new ideas.  As Arlo pointed out earlier Einstein had to have an e, m,
c and = concept to make E=mc2.  Doesn't this point to an ongoing process
where different individuals have contributed to an idea?  Sure they weren't
all in the room at the same time "brainstorming" (as many of those involved
were dead) but they all contributed in some way to the idea.

Regards,
David Beckemeier


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