“Every great idea involves a little bit of a slip up…”
is the idea. Perhaps that’s a way to open up a
discussion of the rule following/breaking aspects of change, a creative “slip
ups” feature of both mental creativity and independent learning systems
exploring their environments.
The rules of a system are strongly self-reinforcing, otherwise
there would be no system. So it’s place of creative possibility
is to insert things that might develop in the occasional gaps in the rules?
Is there any set of rules that can’t have gaps? Well it
depends on the ‘forgiving eye’ of the one being asked that
question, but I think all the incompleteness theorems point to a quite clear
answer of ‘no’.
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