Remote Brainwaves Predict Future Eureka Moment
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 10:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Real-world problems come in two broad flavors: those requiring sequential reasoning and those requiring transformative reasoning: a break from past thinking and restructuring followed by an insight (also known as Eureka or 'Aha!'), which is a process by which a problem solver abruptly, through a quantum leap of understanding with no conscious forewarning, moves from a state of not knowing how to solve a problem to a state of knowing how to solve it.
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