- results - [[🌲 zettels]] - Tags: [[Insight problem solving]] - Description - Breaking ideas down into their __component parts__ allows us to **creatively reinterpret ideas for new purposes**, such as creating a new understanding of a problem, or creatively [[reuse]] - In [[Insight problem solving]] - People create chunks to organize experience. ((kJ0JodSt_)) - Encountering a novel problem activates some chunks from past experiences. Not all of them will be helpful; and some will be actively unhelpful. And some will need to be decomposed ([[compression]] - [Evidence]([[SupportedBy]] - [[@mccaffreyInnovationReliesObscure2012]] - R-Sources - Argument for [[chunk decomposition]] - See also 8frvxGKhs ###### Discourse Context - **Supported By::** [[EVD - People were ~2x worse at solving matchstick arithmetic problems when the elements were harder to decompose into chunks - @knoblichConstraintRelaxationChunk1999]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Compression is necessary for synthesis]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Representing ideas in atomic units facilitates conceptual combination]] - **Informed By::** [[@knoblichConstraintRelaxationChunk1999]] - **Informed By::** [[@mccaffreyInnovationReliesObscure2012]]