Great points.

On the subject of originality, I remind myself that we all stand on the shoulders of giants. What part of us is really our own?

Our language, our symbols, our science, our beliefs are all borrowed from the past. This is not to state that none of us are original. We can arrange all we know in original ways.

Another thought I borrow from the past is this. Nothing is new under the sun. It has all been done before in one way or another. We may rediscover it and believe it be our own, but it is illusion.

So we play with the peices, like your building blocks illustration above, and make new arrangements. In the end it is a game. A game of connection with others. A game of fascination and attraction.