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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: "Cognitive queueing"
Summary: Synthetic Reasoning while the Analyzier Sleeps.
Keywords: "Aha!" method
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Date: 3 Jul 89 02:33:55 GMT
References: <2203@trantor.harris-atd.com> <206@intek01.UUCP> <1751@scubed.UUCP> <4601@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <4601@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

 > Chuck Musciano:

 > > When I am faced with a problem...I sort of think about it...
 > > Sometime later, maybe days, maybe weeks, the full solution just pops
 > > into my head.

 > In article <206@intek01.UUCP>  mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:

 > > I've never been this systematic about it, but it works a lot the same way
 > > my best stuff in the shower, or just lying in bed Saturday morning.

 > In article <1751@scubed.UUCP> , warner@s3dawn.ARPA (Ken Warner) writes:

 > > Sometimes I will go to bed... and wake up with a complete solution. 
 > > It's as if I dreamt the solution.

 > I wonder what Julian Jaynes would say about this?
 
I don't presume to speak for Julian Jaynes (although I did find his
book stimulating reading).  But I find that Synthetic Reasoning
(or Creative Problem Solving) requires use of both hemispheres.
Since I am left-hemispere dominant, I have to shut down the left
hemisphere (usually by going to sleep) in order to give the right
side a chance to generate a novel idea and communicate it to my
left hemisphere.

--Barry  Kort