What is new?

Since King Solomon wrote the statement, 'There’s nothing new under the sun', many advances have taken place in society, but, from the larger perspective of life, and according to the ancient Scripture human nature has remained and always will remain the same. However the statement does not ignore inventions or advances in technology; rather, these innovations do not amount to any basic change in the world. Parmenides, the pre-Socrates philosopher, argues that change is impossible: "whatever is is, and what is not cannot be", a statement that is generally considered one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of being. In contrast Heraclitus, the ancient cosmologist, holds that "No man ever steps into the same river twice" which is regarded as one of the first digressions into the philosophical concept of becoming. Now the world, from the perspective of ideation, is in ever-present change, flux or becoming. rather than one thing, which is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. Indeed ideation is a mode of becoming and what generates or inspires ideas, or stirs man's imagination and creativity is limitless. However, original ideas require the ability or capacity to break away from traditional ways of thinking or behaviour, which is a challenging task.