@bronze@graf@nosleep that exactly how I've felt it worked when I've had that experience. But "another part of your own brain" doing a thing vs. machine elves or a muse doing the thing, how would you even tell the difference? I'm just suddenly given an insight, there's no feeling of "aw man look at all this work I (you) did to get this insight"
@apropos@bronze@nosleep@graf looking at the history of invention I have to believe in divine inspiration. not as the only explanation for solving problems of course, but sometimes it's really hard to see how someone made an intellectual leap, and I'm sure it was not always a lucky accident as modern people tend to believe
but I also think the ground needs to be fertile for the seed to grow, as in the person has to be pretty familiar with the details of the problem to make sense of and use of whatever epiphany was delivered
@graf@nosleep I like to think of it as pushing the problem down to the subconscious level, so another part of the brain can work on it. Most of the time I'll just sleep on it and wake up with the answer.
@nosleep this is true. any time i cant figure something out i will go and do literally anything else and the solution just comes to me randomly without thinking about it lol
@olmitch@GrungeQueef@nosleep hitting someone hard enough in the head with a hammer will stop them being schizo and also stop them wanting to crossdress, but it doesn't establish a connection between those acts beyond that an operational brain is required for both. And I've no faith in pills that they're much more targeted or less generally harmful than a hammer.
@bronze@nosleep Demons blow up PCBAs Customers send me the PCBAs I seal the demons back into the PCBAs The customer receives the fixed PCBAs I do this for fifty years Then I die
There are worse fates than electrical exorcist, I guess.