DoomYoshi wrote:nietzsche wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:
What other speculations are there? It's the only theory I've ever heard.
I'd lie to you if I told you this and that. I think the theory you mentioned is mainstrean because it was in that top seller Blink i think, suggesting that normally breakthrougs come from outside of the discipline.
I've read over the years many ideas related to this, for instance the one that i like most is the "tuning in" idea... some sort of very narrow focusing in your own mind in moments of extreme clarity and energy and a lot of brain "RAM" to find something. I another idea proposed in the blink book is to think about stuff in moments like when you're shaving? Because of the focus + small stress response (maybe the first theory i mentioned was not in Blink but in another one of those top seller books.) Another popular way among authors is thinking about topics intensely for a short period of times, 2-3 days, then leave it along and in one week or two, sit down to type, and somehow the ideas/pointers have matured in the back of their minds.
I don't know, for sure, but never has anyone responded that question, if you are interested in the topic you'll have to accept the uncertainty and maybe that creates enough tension that you find the answer and tell me.
Maybe a problem is that anything I've ever read takes that answer for granted.
Here's an article that does just that:
http://www.chronicle.com/article/We-Need-More-Useless-/239365?key=sp0x03E8c0EpmAD1jKoY1bfV4sUT5Q4XEgqPwngvKWO9K3tB2ItsT7NqOgfc52k3dEZob2E0Tmk2MGVTWEZwZGRZUHdxczhkclJ1U1YyRE0tbFlVMVViMHdPbw
i promise i will read it, eventually, and promise to look for a very interesting article i read once on the scientific method and hypothesis formulation that touched the topic very interestingly.
