My goodness that was a cold walk with the doggo. Listened to a podcast on the Rubik’s Cube. It was invented in Hungary behind the Iron Curtain (maybe '82 I think?). A guy in America had invented a 2x2 version 2 years earlier. No way they could have met or seen each other’s work. Worked in exactly the same way. They just came up with it at the same time. Really interesting.
I love this stuff. ‘Multiple discoveries’ are a thing throughout history, like American Thomas Edison being credited with the lightbulb, but British scientist Joseph Swan came up with the same thing at the same time, completely independently, and both were patented in 1879.
I used to have an idea that ideas actually are there for everyone to tap into. They come from somewhere and if you’re attuned you recieve it and know how to respond to it. I got from hearing about multiple discoveries and playing improvised music in a bunch of settings for a number of years. At times if switched in, a drummer and bass player for example could sync to rhythms which were atypical and finish inprovised jams at the exact same time with the bass player (me) faced away from the drummer. At times I would enter a kind of trance and just breathe and my hands would move without thinking about them. Cool idea anyway.
My goodness that was a cold walk with the doggo. Listened to a podcast on the Rubik’s Cube. It was invented in Hungary behind the Iron Curtain (maybe '82 I think?). A guy in America had invented a 2x2 version 2 years earlier. No way they could have met or seen each other’s work. Worked in exactly the same way. They just came up with it at the same time. Really interesting.
I love this stuff. ‘Multiple discoveries’ are a thing throughout history, like American Thomas Edison being credited with the lightbulb, but British scientist Joseph Swan came up with the same thing at the same time, completely independently, and both were patented in 1879.
I used to have an idea that ideas actually are there for everyone to tap into. They come from somewhere and if you’re attuned you recieve it and know how to respond to it. I got from hearing about multiple discoveries and playing improvised music in a bunch of settings for a number of years. At times if switched in, a drummer and bass player for example could sync to rhythms which were atypical and finish inprovised jams at the exact same time with the bass player (me) faced away from the drummer. At times I would enter a kind of trance and just breathe and my hands would move without thinking about them. Cool idea anyway.