Yeah, if you can write great-sounding music in the style of Bach or some other long dead composer, that doesn’t make you as great as them, that makes you an unoriginal hack. (I can solve lots of math problems that Newton never could because I’ve read textbooks written long after he died, but that doesn’t make me a better mathematician...)
Yea exactly, that’s the point I’m trying to get at. It seems like there is a limit to the possibilities of “great” contributions to any field, and if that is so then it makes sense that eventually each field will be completed. Completion is the point where humanity has completed every field and discovered all knowledge (and could be viewed as the biggest goal for humanity in a way).
Yeah, if you can write great-sounding music in the style of Bach or some other long dead composer, that doesn’t make you as great as them, that makes you an unoriginal hack. (I can solve lots of math problems that Newton never could because I’ve read textbooks written long after he died, but that doesn’t make me a better mathematician...)
Yea exactly, that’s the point I’m trying to get at. It seems like there is a limit to the possibilities of “great” contributions to any field, and if that is so then it makes sense that eventually each field will be completed. Completion is the point where humanity has completed every field and discovered all knowledge (and could be viewed as the biggest goal for humanity in a way).