prometheus: guest blogging from honduras

a buddy too lazy to make a blogger profile tripped me out with this message:

i also just finished reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, which is making its way into my brainwaves and now through my fingers and now into your brain. don't know if you've read it, but the premise is that everything good comes from the ego, that collectivism has been thrown at us as a ruse and we are caught up worrying about doing what my neighbor thinks is right because its what he thinks his neighbor thinks is right, etc...that by being selfish i achieve that which i could not achieve if i let you help me...that our ultimate tool is rational thinking, i.e. all good, new, radical, mode shifting ideas come from the individual. so my reaction is to think of some conversations we had about a collective subconciuoss (i know i spelled that wrong, but i couldn't even spell it right when i lived in a country where english is the primary language)...so thats fine, all ideas come from the individual because i can't share my brain with you just like i can't digest those entamens donuts you just ate for you. but where do original ideas come from? aren't our ideas based on past experiences that we have stored in our memory? that the whole of our existence is needed to form the thoughts that i am having right now...that if one thing about my experience as prometheus had been different i would not be sitting here typing these exact words right now. so i guess what i'm getting at is that even the ideas that originate within the individual thought process come from a collection of past thoughts, so there really is no such thing as an individual.

(the disclaimer is that this is just an idea, maybe some type of theory in the making, but it needs some help. lets dialogue.)

¿how does the brain work again?