# Anti Basilisk

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/anti-basilisk/7634>\
**Category:** Lounge\
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/anti-basilisk/7634 "2020-06-07T08:12:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bitking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/bitking/32/3099_2.png) [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/anti-basilisk/7634/56 "2020-11-27T15:53:57Z")

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I totally agree!

> [@"Original thought" - fact or fiction?](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/original-thought-fact-or-fiction/5102/3):
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> I have long thought that humans do not have "original thoughts’ as described in the classic sense. (see what I did there?) We seek out novel experiences. That is why we set up experiences to be exposed to new ideas that can be synthesized into “original thoughts.” For example - we have laboratories where we can be exposed to previously un-experienced observations. We listen to new music. We travel to new places to add to our repository of experiences. We read books and watch movies to exper…

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