Sitting in my Greek Philosophy class discussing the composition of Reality, pondering the really hard-stuff we hardly think about. I find myself coming back to one of the only absolute truths I believe there is: "You can't get something from nothing." It seems super simple and logical, but it complicates things immensely.
I have been watching House M.D. lately, and almost every episode finds House solving a mystery by a sudden strike of inspiration that seems to come out of no where. I often find myself working on a problem or puzzle and suddenly get a sudden (in the words of Watson) ejaculation of thought, a eureka moment.
Whether the answer suddenly pops into my head, or something leads me to think about a different approach, or a different way of thinking that leads me to an answer. I call this process 'Inspiration'.
So my question is where does 'Inspiration' come from? Since something, even thought, can't come from nothing, it must be derived from something.
Open-ended question.
