To Build is to Move

Sean McClure
Dec 22, 2024

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Ideas that work are not ideas at all.

They are things that have no name.

They are entities manifesting from collections of impossibly intricate dependencies.

What we call great “ideas” are post hoc stories we tell ourselves *after* something works.

“Ideas” that work are held in the continuum; in the environment composed of countless people making countless contributions. They have no defined form, no corporal shape.

Ideas are owned by no one, made by nobody.

They are not yours. They are not mine.

What *you* are is movement. That is what you own. That is what you are responsible for.

To create is to move.

Then to go for long walks, thinking about the discoveries gifted you for your movement.

Then to move again.

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Sean McClure
Sean McClure

Written by Sean McClure

Independent Scholar; Author of Discovered, Not Designed; Ph.D. Computational Chem; Builder of things; I study and write about science, philosophy, complexity.

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