"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent
perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison, Harper's Monthly (September
1932) Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in
public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879 You might find
a similarity here, that speaks to ingenuity and such, while
seeing the historical significance of what is being spoken too.
As if, it is the necessity at the forefront of knowledge today.
This is "ole stuff being replayed" as if "young minds" need to
be reminded, and mine is not so young that I have not gone down
these routes before. Or that I needed a reminder. In computer
science, tabula rasa refers to the development of autonomous
agents which are provided with a mechanism to reason and plan
toward their goal, but no "built-in" knowledge-base of their
environment. They are thus truly a "blank slate". There is no
doubt that invention is a process that needs recording. That it
shows the procedural avenues to an "established idea" is the
necessary aspect of "owni