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| Thread ID: 53873 | 2005-01-29 23:53:00 | Insight. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 319284 | 2005-01-30 19:20:00 | So,can we conclude that if we put the question to the mind,that which we can't understand at the time and hold the idea,we may get some insight? That is apart from the spontaneous insight that the likes of Archimedes experienced. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 319285 | 2005-01-30 20:10:00 | No-one knows whether Archimedes idea was spontaneous. He may have have been considering the problem of flotation for some time and then as he relaxed in the bath a solution came to him. | Dally (6292) | ||
| 319286 | 2005-01-30 20:33:00 | To check on your insight, go to www.mindbluff.com ..... | TonyF (246) | ||
| 319287 | 2005-01-31 09:05:00 | No-one knows whether Archimedes idea was spontaneous. He may have have been considering the problem of flotation for some time and then as he relaxed in the bath a solution came to him. Well you can't argue with that! Did you say where these insights come from? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 319288 | 2005-01-31 19:15:00 | I don't think anyone knows where these flashes of insight come from. Most people will have experienced having an intractable problem of some sort, and not knowing the answer, only for it to appear after a good nights sleep, or even suddenly during the night, when the mind is wandering, an answer comes. The deep penetrating insight some people have into matters, rather than the sudden inspiration, is humbling. I find the transition from classical Newtonian physics to discontinuous quantum physics during the early 1900s and 20s, fascinating. The greatest brains of the day engaged in endless debate. The story of Heisenberg and Bohr, and the uncertainty principle makes good reading. Archimedes is interesting, because originally he was given the task by the King of syracuse to find out whether the kings new golden crown was made of pure gold, or whether the metal had been alloyed with silver. The problem was to find the volume of the crown, Archimedes already knew about density, he could weigh and he could measure regular shapes, even spheres. When he lowered himself into his brim full tub water flowed over, that was the eureka facto. A method off finding the volume of the crown by displacement of water. He could collect and measure the volume of the displaced water. The boyancy was an important secondary result, these days it is spoken of as the primary result. As well as being a mathematician, he was good with screw threads, as with his Archimedean Screw for lifting water, and a spin off, the A(r)C(hi)ME(dean), or ACME screw thread used in machine devices (only kidding, Scouse will think I'm serious). |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 319289 | 2005-01-31 20:53:00 | As Terry says no-one knows how insight comes about and there are plenty of theories. Steven Pinker in "How the Mind Works", thinks that the insight epiphany is not a master stroke but a tweaking of a earlier attempt and having a the rest from the problem makes it possible to forget the blind alleys. The groundwork must be circulating in the neurons somewhere. | Dally (6292) | ||
| 319290 | 2005-02-01 01:55:00 | It would seem to me that universal knowledge is gained incrementally through these insights.Rather like caxtons press as apposed to the latest heidelberg job. I used to think all knowledge was held in all minds and it was just a case of discovering it. |
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