Comment Re:One should have to prove "no prior art"! (Score 1) 139
How can one say that nobody has written that exact same song, book, whatever? Have you checked everything that has ever been expressed since the beginning of time? The only logical thing to conclude is that nobody ever creates ideas. Ideas exist outside of time, so there is always "prior art".
That's probably one of the worst abuses of "philosophy" I've heard in a while. Your conclusion that ideas exist outside of time isn't justified by your hand wavey "proof." Besides, even if they did exist outside of time it wouldn't matter since everthing we experience is in the context of perceived time. Unless you can avoid this sense of time, then the conclusion isn't applicable to us.
That's probably one of the worst abuses of "philosophy" I've heard in a while. Your conclusion that ideas exist outside of time isn't justified by your hand wavey "proof." Besides, even if they did exist outside of time it wouldn't matter since everthing we experience is in the context of perceived time. Unless you can avoid this sense of time, then the conclusion isn't applicable to us.
