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Ok, a solution appears. But does the solution manifest (a flower grows in the garden) or does it become apparent (the fog clears to reveal it)? Because the ph
by swayvil 2y ago
Ok, a solution appears.
But does the solution manifest (a flower grows in the garden) or does it become apparent (the fog clears to reveal it)?
Because the phenomenon we're discussing could be attributed to either cause. But they are quite different causes. And imply quite different stuff going on there.
- inciampati 2y agoYou eventually get to the solution if you keep thinking long enough. The trick is to not stop thinking in the background about it. That's the process. I think that hours or days, like the author mentions, even seems very short. Many of the kinds of things that I have experienced, which yielded to this kind of process, took months to years. Sometimes big problems can be broken down into many small ones and only take those minutes to hours to days to complete. But still, the big problem takes a long time to work through.
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- marginalia_nu 2y agoA solution may manifest as a series of insights, but the insights themselves are quite binary. You suddenly find yourself having them. For me at least they appear as a thought like any other.
- swayvil 2y agoThat is my experience also. Which sorta suggests option 2. Option 2 is heavy.
- argiopetech 2y agoMore like the flower, I'd say. Your first problem statement plants the seed. The solution (and the shortcomings in that solution and in the original problem statement) are the seed clearing the dirt. As you write, think, and write again, the plant grows and takes form until the time is right for the flower to bloom. Then the bloom slowly dies, unnoticed by the majority (beautiful in their place, but with no generalizable characteristics), or as the work becomes common knowledge and is integrated into better and more complex solutions to bigger and harder problems. The most beautiful flowers are mass produced for public consumption ($e=mc^2$, and the like), but those are rather few and far between.
- swayvil 2y agoOr. Your first consideration of the problem is your first glance into the fog, revealing the superficial. Then, as you continue to peer in that direction, more is revealed. One phenomenon, 2 perfectly good explanations. Like, is it a variable or a reference to a variable? Hard to say.
- dev_tty01 2y agoWell, it is both of course. Why assume a binary process? Several solutions are probably grown, considered, and evaluated and one begins to gain precedence. That one then finally becomes apparent and is revealed.
- ilaksh 2y agoMost cognition is subconscious. I believe there is an unsung gardener hero working in the background to cultivate the candidate flowers and then put spotlights on a few of the best ones that emerge. You then evaluate them as you walk down your path of consciousness.
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