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<p>In support of one of my earlier rambles about the source and
value/nature of intuition:</p>
<p>I submit this blog-entry on the Pirsig's reflections on the
nature of "Truth" in science and subliminal/subconscious sources
of intuition and inspiration and even analysis. <a
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href="https://mythoslogos.org/2017/04/26/zen-and-the-art-of-science-a-tribute-to-robert-pirsig/">"Zen
and the Art of Science"</a> written as a tribute to Pirsig
after his death in 2017...<br>
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<p><i>One of the most fruitful sources of hypotheses in science
is mathematics, a discipline which consists of the creation
of symbolic models of quantitative relationships. And yet,
the nature of mathematical discovery is so mysterious that
mathematicians themselves have compared their insights to
mysticism. The great French mathematician Henri Poincare
believed that the human mind worked subliminally on
problems, and his work habit was to spend </i><i><a
href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kjFWKqc_eisC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=poincare+two+hours&source=bl&ots=eVzG7VELV-&sig=rCYkufFuzsE1dWsRtYEY5q23bos&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1rI_d7e3MAhVFjz4KHU9zCD44ChDoAQgkMAI#v=onepage&q=poincare%20two%20hours&f=false"
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working on mathematics. Poincare believed that his
subconscious would continue working on problems while he
conducted other activities, and indeed, many of his great
discoveries occurred precisely when he was away from his
desk. John von Neumann, one of the best mathematicians of
the twentieth century, also believed in the subliminal mind.
He would sometimes go to sleep with a mathematical problem
on his mind and </i><i><a
href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pmPaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=%22von+neumann%22+sleep&source=bl&ots=xsqciGGT_m&sig=1EtMw3-fznf_WRwrMzdUtIcPc9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9pIX1pPDLAhVILSYKHRB-D68Q6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q=%22von%20neumann%22%20sleep&f=false"
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with a solution</a></i><i>. The Indian mathematical genius
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a Hindu mystic who believed that</i><i><a
href="http://www.livescience.com/25597-ramanujans-math-theories-proved.html"
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dreams by the goddess Namagiri.</a><br>
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<p>I would like to submit that the above does NOT (IMO) answer the
question of "other ways knowing", just more hidden (to the
conscious process) methods of arriving at knowledge which is
verifiable by independent and repeatable testing of the
consequent hypotheses.</p>
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