source of unique thoughts

[eternomi]

Unique in the absolute sense.. As in, noone had thought of it before you..

Is it true that what we can think up is limited (or defined) by what we have already experienced, thus made a part of our neural wiring? Or is there possibility of getting "inspiration" from some source that can feed us ideas that are not based on what we have experienced thus far? Do I have to keep reading, doing, experiencing to get to new understandings and new thoughts, or could such revelations happen on their own? How about things that noone has ever written about before? Where do these come from? Is everything just an extrapolation from the previous? Or are there discrete jumps in between? Where do these jumps come from?

From a subjective point of view, you cannot experience what you don't know. So, knowing/believing comes first. Well, this is a chicken&egg problem. How did you know before you experienced? How could you have experienced without knowing? My way out of this chicken&egg situation is to believe that there is a root source of all ideas/thoughts/beliefs.

Did anyone chase the light back to its source? How did you do it? Maybe it will be revealed on its own, but if you happen to know, please do share. If I figure it out, I'll let you know.

[eternomi]

The following is a great read. I think it ties in with my question although it isn't a full answer:

The Holographic Brain

Pribram: It isn't that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn't that there aren't objects out there, at one level of reality. It's that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a nonlense system, in this case a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hereto remained inexplicable scientifically.

Pribram: My best hunch is that access to those other domains of consciousness is through attention.

Pribram: While we don't know what the mechanisms for a leap to the paranormal might be, for the first time, we have to suspend clue disbelief in such phenomena because there is now a scientific base that allows understanding. Perhaps if we could discover the rules for "tuning in" on the holographic implicate domain, we could come to some agreement as to what constitutes normal and paranormal, and even some deeper understanding of the implicate order of the universe.

We all could perhaps then leap, occasionally, into the timeless and spaceless domain.

p.s. I never really liked the term "holographic" universe. Unless you understand the whole concept from start to finish, you end up wondering what the universe has to do with lasers?!.. Thankfully, the only mention of how holographic images work is at the very end of the article. Just ignore that. For the record, the only relevance of holograms with how reality/universe works is the interference/overlapping of frequencies. Even this is a description that could easily be confused with radios and microwaves, but oh well..