Category Archives: Insight Event

Ineffability of Insight

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors Intro-Yay! p98: “If insight represents only a small portion of the full creative process, it nevertheless constitutes one of the major sources of ineffability with which discussions … Continue reading →

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Nature of Insight II

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

The Nature of Insight, Sternberg & Davidson, Editors © 1996 The MIT Press | Epilogue – Schooler et al. How Impasses are Overcome – there seem to be a lot of ways to resolve being stuck Improving Solving Recognition Deemphasizing Problem Elements Forgetting … Continue reading →

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Nature of Insight

Posted on May 30, 2010 by

The Nature of Insight, Sternberg & Davidson, Editors © 1996 The MIT Press | Epilogue – Schooler et al. – Found some of this applicable/interesting. Important to make a distinction between the Insight Event and explanations of insight problems [or different … Continue reading →

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Qualia as untransferable

Posted on January 15, 2007 by

Referring back to the Dennett post/note: The breakdown/description of Qualia as problematic is primarily based on its ‘non-verbal’ nature.  It is ‘ineffable’ less because qualia are some indefinable thing not clear to the experiencer than because it is difficult to describe effectively. … Continue reading →

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