Any_snd any help with this?

Hey everyone. <br><br>I don’t know the name of this fallacy (or cognitive bias) so I’ve made a post here - can y’all help me identify it? <br><br>When I say something and someone else expands on it or uses part of it, frequently they say (or think) “I originated that idea. I talked about it first,” or some other similar variant, as though the idea was a stone skipped across a pond, as though the idea was a ripple in a pond, originating at one central location.As though the idea was somehow local, with a specific origin.We can call this thought process “localism.”<br><br>Localism is a false way of thinking because ideas cannot be confined to any one place. They are not local. Rather than an idea being like a stone skipped across a pond, it is more like a drop of dye into the ocean. It is impossible to know where that idea really originated because it has permeated the fabric of the ocean, impossible to know where it ends and where it begins. It has been absorbed and assimilated by the water and carried like a tide across the surface of the ocean.<br><br>It is not just the action, it is the reaction that causes the idea to spread like a tide. It is both the person skipping the stone and the reaction of the pond itself that allows the idea to spread. When you say something, you are not skipping the stone. You are both the stone and the pond. And the person you are talking to is both the stone and the pond. The idea is the water molecules themselves moving away from the center point of contact. The idea is not where the original stone dropped into the pond. It is the water molecules on every shore.