Where Does Vision Originate?

If I were to hit the same notes in the same rhythm and sing the same lyrics in the same keys as Stevie Wonder does, is it only talented imitation or would I also have artistic vision? Do those notes in that order at that rhythm with those words sang in those keys only exist because Stevie Wonder envisioned them, or did they always exist, and Stevie Wonder merely arrange what already existed into an order that would have been the same regardless of who arranged the elements in the particular orders that comprise his music?

Were the colors Vincent mixed on his palettes not available for anyone to mix? The strokes with which he applied those colors to canvases would certainly have worked the same if someone had done it ten years earlier than did van Gogh. Others have imitated him in the years since, and some have been imprisoned for forgery because of it. Was it not the visions of those people to make money stealing fame? Is the difference a matter of intention and not a matter of talent?

To me, vision is the ability to go into infinity and bring out of it something that did not exist but will exist thereafter. Vision is the ability to see something that has yet to be created and creating it. 

Whatever is created would have worked had anybody created it. Most people, however, will not see it in order to create it. If you see it and don’t create it, it remains in infinity as something “that does not exist.” It will be there for someone else to envision, or maybe no one else will see it. Whether it “ever exists” or “never exists,” it is real in infinity.

Infinity is mathematically weird. If you subtract infinity from infinity, you still have infinity. Squaring infinity results in infinity. Whatever the results, they are already included in infinity, even if by never having existed.

It works the same way for authors, musicians, poets, painters, sculptors, bakers, and CGI artists: whatever is created could have been created by anybody. Even though they created something, it can be duplicated because all the elements remain for others to copy. If someone takes a vision from infinity and does not use it, it remains for someone else to create whatever it was that was seen.

“Vision is the art of seeing that which is invisible to others.” Jonathan Swift had vision. I would add to that if he had not said those words in that order, someone else may have at a later time. The words were there to attribute to whoever first arranged them in that particular order. It is presumptuous to believe those words in that order were thought of by him first, rather than “he was the first person to verifiably convert into matter those words in that order.”

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This is an excerpt from my eBook Conceptual Thoughts - Infinity: Where Everything is Real.

It is available at Amazon.