Very interesting perspective, Prajakta.

I especially enjoyed this:

"From an individual’s perspective, this is bad news. If we don't act on our ideas, someone else will. You can almost be sure that someone else has had a similar stroke of inspiration.

But there is good news too. When inspiration strikes, it doesn't necessarily mean you are the chosen one. Our egos would have us believe that we are the chosen ones, or that the cause is too important to not dedicate ourselves to. Instead, you are one of the chosen many."

Rupert Sheldrake wrote about morphic fields in, or before, the 1990s. I got aware of his research in the 1990s. Although he was a scientist, academia did not take him seriously.. But about 6 years ago, I have heard other biologists and scientists from other disciplines mention his name again...

His idea about the morphic fields would have been quite noncontroversial to ancient geniuses who had flashes of insight that some ideas seem to "float around" and that people in very different locations "pick them up", because they "resonate" and even develop them further.

Look up Rupert Sheldrake (if you don't know him already). Based on your writing, you will like him.