"When I try to think about thinking, for instance retracing where an idea of mine came from, **the limitations of English force me to say that “I” “produced” an “idea.”** But none of these things are stable entities, and this grammatical relationship among them is misleading. **The “idea” isn’t a finished product with identifiable boundaries that one moment sprung into being—one of the reasons artists so hate the interview question, “So what was your inspiration for this?” Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn’t occur somehow inside of me, but between what I perceive as me and not-me."** ([Location 2501](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07RHWKD7N&location=2501)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]]. [[plagiarism]], [[innovation]], **Source** -- [[20251230081807 - B - How to Do Nothing]]