New ideas are a bit like DNA mutations. Recombinations of fundamental blocks without any assurance that they will amount to something.

Most will simply not lead to a functioning organism: they are incomplete, internally inconsistent, misconstrued.

But even the few that do, they simply become seeds.

Whether they actually germinate and grow depends on random circumstances such as time and location.

In other words, the "external environment"


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