"For example, when I'm debugging, I don't think, I simply let my mind explore the catacombs and the solution bubbles up from my subconscious." http://press.pri

"For example, when I'm debugging, I don't think, I simply let my mind explore the catacombs and the solution bubbles up from my subconscious." http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5896.html http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5896.html Get a copy from your nearest library. You are operating in the same mode as most creative mathematicians. My girlfriends at University had to cope with a shorthand pad and pen on the bedside, and being totally ignored for 24 hours at a stretch when the ideas came. The subconscious only works when fully primed by the way. You must know your code very well for the links to 'bubble up' like that.