Having imitated the Whole by a work of mosaic, he imagines he has retraced the design of it, and made the genesis. Bergson shows us philosophy's profound difference twixt new borne of information and new borne of evolution. Latter begs EEE . Former begs rearrangement of that which has already evolved. Really, both involve more or less evolution, but EEE begs emergence where information may not.
Music is a good example.
We have all heard clones of others' tunes. They are quite readily impeached. Yet when Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue first appeared, little doubt that it was genuinely novel. Few had used pattern recursion so extensively in semi-classical music prior. But his American in Paris almost sounds like a clone, a cut-up picture rearranged.