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Re: "Cognitive queueing" (was: Typing versus Handwriting)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 13:28
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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

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?

(Julian Jaynes is a psych-type who claims that *most* thought is unconscious,
 and in fact that consciousness as we know it developed fairly recently in
 history.)
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: "Cognitive queueing" (was: Typing versus Handwriting)
Keywords: "Aha!" method
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Date: 19 Jun 89 13:28:36 GMT
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