If all art is derivative then the earlier statement is a tautology.
People still call things other people do novel. There's clear social proof that humans do things that other humans consider novel.
Otherwise the word would probably not exist.
Just today I wrote a python program that did not resemble anything I'd written before, nor had I seen anything similar.
I had to reason it out myself. That passes thr test that the original comment set.
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If all art is derivative then the earlier statement is a tautology.
People still call things other people do novel. There's clear social proof that humans do things that other humans consider novel. Otherwise the word would probably not exist.
Just today I wrote a python program that did not resemble anything I'd written before, nor had I seen anything similar. I had to reason it out myself. That passes thr test that the original comment set.