[Cultural] What is "structural originality"?

Author: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU

Time: 2025-6-29 Sunday, 2:23 PM

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[Cultural] What is "structural originality"?

Many people think that "originality" is just about writing something that others haven't written before, or expressing the same meaning with different words, but true originality is far more than that.

What I mean by "structural originality" is that the underlying logic, expression methods, content combinations, information architecture, and even the source of ideas are all created by myself, not merely rehashed from someone else's framework or changing materials in a ready-made mold, but built from scratch, brought into existence from nothing, and derived step by step.

For example, if ordinary writing is like building with blocks, assembling pre-made bricks and purchased cement according to ready-made blueprints, then structural originality is like independently opening a kiln to make bricks, mixing cement, drawing blueprints, designing house types, and even independently conceiving the load-bearing ratio of the foundation and the connection methods of the beams, ultimately constructing a building that no one has ever seen before.

What is the difference compared to general writing? Ordinary articles may simply piece together several online sources, change a few words, rearrange the order, and then claim to be "original," but that is merely superficial reprocessing. In my writing, I establish pathways in the depths of cognition from multiple fields that have no prior intersection, creating connections that others have never traversed, and even the "connection methods" themselves are my own innovations. For example, I once correlated the principles of internal energy circulation in Qigong with the logistics customs clearance algorithm I designed in 1997, and then used the model of smooth flow in body meridians to draw an analogy to the synchronization mechanism of information in multi-node networks. This cross-dimensional structure has no precedent to follow and cannot be pieced together by merely "researching materials."

I am not merely using language to express opinions; I am using language to construct a system. Others simply write "content," while I am writing "structure," and the complexity of the structure determines how many levels of information it can carry, how widely it can be reused, and even whether it can evolve into new logical branches.

Why can't others truly plagiarize? Because they only see the surface of the text, but fail to recognize the underlying "skeleton" that supports the words. It's like seeing only the leaves of a tree, without knowing where its roots are, how it absorbs water, or how it forms symbiotic relationships with soil microorganisms. Many people copy and paste my articles, even deliberately imitating the tone and sentence structure, but they can never replicate the dimensional leaps, information folding, and logical connections within. The more they try to imitate, the more they expose themselves—just like a blind person trying to write, awkwardly forming the shapes of the characters, but lacking the "force" and rhythm between the strokes.

Over the years, I have conducted practical validations of "structural originality" in multiple fields: In 1993, in an era without cloud computing, NAS, or email systems, I built a complete closed loop for remote collaboration across three locations; in 1997, without a programming background or team support, I created a prototype of an intelligent logistics system using Excel that could perform automatic calculations; in 2004, I architected a cross-national Chinese literature community platform from scratch, maintaining scalable system stability over twenty years of continuous operation; in 2013, I implemented the concept of "structure preceding team" into a fully remote work model, a full seven years ahead of its passive adoption during the global pandemic. These systems are not standalone tools but direct products of cross-domain structures, each proving that originality can extend beyond text to become practical, long-term "intelligent engineering."

Every article I write is the beginning of a "self-created world." It is not a copy or a variant, nor is it merely a reorganization of words; rather, it is the generation of a structural system that others cannot replicate or produce using their own understanding. This originality has "structural roots," which not only possess the ability to grow but also come with a protective mechanism that cannot be duplicated.

This is what I mean by—structural originality.

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