IMO, both innovation & philosophy involve thinking. Thinking at a deeper level than usual. (technically you are 'thinking' when your brain 'commands' your hand to pick up the spoon & feed you, but I am referring to thinking in its more complex usage).
When I 'innovate', the process involved thinking, I need to find a scope, a need, a method to fulfill that need & then think how to implement it & implement it.
Philosophy is not much different. When I am musing about life, the purpose of life and such other rudimentary concepts, I am often trying to find a need, for life, a way to explain what is happening & why is it happening & apply it to life.
So is it just that they are 2 different types of thinkings? Maybe. Yet to figure it out.
This was my answer to a question about the relation between innovation & philosophy.
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ReplyDeleteInnovation is a subset of philosophy, imo.
ReplyDeletePlease elaborate.
ReplyDeleteOh, nothing meaningful. Innovation need not necessarily be technological innovation. Innovation in thoughts/perspectives is a result of _thinking_ about it.
ReplyDeleteFrom wiki: Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Innovation is an attempt to solve a previously existing problem (most of the time). Be it a tech innovation or an innovation of any other sort, there is philosophy applied- perhaps on subtle levels- I think.
Theories (in philosophy) are never certain, they've been thought over and tested and the one that fits best at the given moment is accepted. Same goes with innovation.
(note: 3am brain here. Not to be taken too seriously, I probably won't understand any of this myself tomorrow)
(note 2: I just realised, that comment is all a random mess and doesn't have much to do with what the point actually was... meh)
ReplyDeleteBut isn't that the very point I am trying to make?
ReplyDeleteOh, it is. *hides*
ReplyDeleteSince you went into hiding 4 months ago, you are yet to come out. :P
ReplyDeleteThe coast is clear, you can come out now!