How do Eureka moments happen? They do feel contingent & magical, arising in consciousness on their own. But looking at the history of breakthrough ideas there seem to be a rough 2-phase process:
It's that feeling of being untethered that gives the mind free rein to recombine the information from step 1 into something new.
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