The second comment made me think insight works as a side-effect of memory consolidation: transforming short-term memory to long-term involves linking it to exis

The second comment made me think insight works as a side-effect of memory consolidation: transforming short-term memory to long-term involves linking it to existing memories. This may reveal two kinds of insights: 1, straightforward connections to prior knowledge (oh, this is like that); 2, by factoring out known commonalities from a new memory, connections within the new memory itself may become obvious.