Novelty is only produced from the familiar and well known

Evidence

Hegel’s philosophy announces that the future, from now on, depends on the way the shapes and figures already present can be put back into play, on the way the extraordinary and unexpected can only arise out of the prose of the well-known and familiar. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1268

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relates to the reader’s brain-plasticity work: habit-formation and neuronal reuse are how a brain generates the new from sedimented patterns. This is the conceptual root of a nonlinear, habitual view of neural change. — connects to: Merely experiencing foreign novelty without grasping its underlying reasons does not boost creativity — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2244; Possibilities often reveal themselves only through the very act of realizing them — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 246; Originality only requires being surprising within one’s own community — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 259

Broader Connections

• Merely experiencing foreign novelty without grasping its underlying reasons does not boost creativity #corroborates (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2244
• Possibilities often reveal themselves only through the very act of realizing them #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 246