I
Innovation implies
a new state of things,
a new configuration of variables,
a new model of action embodied perhaps in a tool, an approach, a construct.
II
Where is innovation born?
In the strange nether place of the unknown?
Through a simple clash of frames of reference?
Or in some other place?
III
Can it be that innovation is actually born of a desire to “worship”
− attention in the highest sense of the word?
Can it be that by simply attending to a problem, wholly and uninterruptedly,
a new state of being comes into place?
IV
Is this “attending to” a mind-state
Not born of historical frames of reference, nor of a mystical unknown.
But of an organization of the mind-energy to a new locus of concern?
V
Can this “attending to” mind-state be reached
Not necessarily by replication
But by carefully orchestrated inquiry?
Can this inquiry result in a new frame of reference
That keeps the innovation at the center
That is perceived such that everyone else too can also see that frame
And say “I too could think of that”, if not globally, at least locally in my context?
VI
Can we, in short, replicate the mind-state that created an innovation rather than the specific innovation itself?
