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Alpha: How?
Gamma: It is probably like investigation. You have to correctly reconstruct all the elements.
Alpha: But it is different with a painting! You already see all the details on it!
Delta: You look at them. It does not mean you see them.
Alpha: What does it mean to us mere humans?
Gamma: Look, Alpha, when it comes to investigation, different people see different things although they are all looking at the same crime scene.
Kappa: Yeah, they all look at the same scene but they see different things. . . . Yeah . . . what does this give us? They arrange things in different ways in their own minds!
Beta: Hey! It’s a major point!
Gamma: Wait, wait. What is it? It does not matter what you are looking at! I mean, whatever you are looking at must be arranged in some form in your mind . . .
Delta: And if it’s new for you, then you are creating. Wow!
Alpha: Someone got lost here.
Delta: Who might it be?
Kappa: Come on, guys.
Teacher: So copying can be creative.
Delta: It looks as if it can be even more creative than the original work.
Alpha: Ooops!
Gamma: How is that?
Beta: May I?
Delta: Go ahead.
Beta: Say you arrange things in a new form. That means you have invented a new idea, right? Now, say you try to understand another person’s idea, OK? You have to do the same, right? Plus, you have to make sure that the idea you are creating matches that one you are trying to grasp. So, it’s like you are making two arrangements at once.
Kappa: Ha! This is why people don’t understand each other!
Gamma: . . . So, we’ve gotten the first answer to the last question.
Teacher: Really?