"Every great idea involves a little bit of a slip up." is the idea. Perhaps that's a way to open up a discussion of the rule following/breaking aspects of change, a creative "slip ups" feature of both mental creativity and independent learning systems exploring their environments.
The rules of a system are strongly self-reinforcing, otherwise there would be no system. So it's place of creative possibility is to insert things that might develop in the occasional gaps in the rules? Is there any set of rules that can't have gaps? Well it depends on the 'forgiving eye' of the one being asked that question, but I think all the incompleteness theorems point to a quite clear answer of 'no'. Phil Henshaw
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