alt Hacker News> we are given random connections and asked to do the mental work of inventing meaning in them
How is that different from having an insight yourself and later doing the work to see if it holds on closer inspection?
> we are given random connections and asked to do the mental work of inventing meaning in them
How is that different from having an insight yourself and later doing the work to see if it holds on closer inspection?
Don't ask me to elaborate on this, because it's kinda nebulous in my mind. I think there's a difference between being given an insight and interrogating that on your own initiative, and being given the same insight.