Glacial Erratics

Tesugen.com: 20 January, 02003

Way down in the bottom of an entry on the creation of small world networks, Peter Lindberg comments on the creative problem solving and science:

Also, in the context of creativity, I find the problem solving strategies of scientists to be interesting. For example, how does a mathematician go about solving problems? I guess that it's a lot less rational than you'd expect.

I've had ongoing issues with the belief that science is dependent on rational behavior. Seems to me that the science that changes lives, that moves things ahead is the science that results from insight. Sure, confirmation is important but why do we need confirmation in the first place: it's because something interesting happened. Something different.

I think those differences come about in large part from knowledge access.