Authorship as Recombination and Synthesis

One rather empirical view that I hold, is that the majority of Authorship is merely an act of recombination and synthesis - very little is original. That is, we take elements from our memory, and recombine in increasingly complex and finer-grained ways.

There are many granualities of recombination. At the rudimentary level, we take large chunks of what we remember and do some small level of combining. As we get increasingly granulated, we start using more elementary building blocks for the process of authorship.

There are also many levels of recombination. This depends on the insight, which is the ability to see deeper into constructs - learning not just the surface structures, such as paragraphs and phrases, but into the techniques, and even the intent, that construct other works of authorship. While this might be subconscious, it is this insight that gives us what seems to be creativity.

I am trying to express that we can learn to be more adept at a technique, or more meta in our techniques. By "more meta" I mean learning meta-techniques, meta-meta-techniques, and so forth to a deeper level. Another way to express this is that we can deepen our insight, or widen our knowledge base, upon which all recombination and synthesis lie.

The key to my idea is that if we can write an operating system that is deeper rather than wider, we can generate more powerful actions, and actions that allow us to not descend from our intent into the practical component of our work. Instead, such a deeper operating system will allow us to express our ideas at the intent level, and allow the depth of stored experience to ensure the computer does the appropriate operations.