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Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2011 04:57:58PM *  1 point [-]

This sounds like Campbell's:

In going beyond what is already known, one cannot but go blindly. If one can go wisely, this indicates already achieved wisdom of some general sort [...] which limits the range of trials.

As I have argued here it is a rather misleading idea.

There may be a random component. As Steven Johnson says: "Chance favours the connected mind".

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