{"id":2301,"date":"2025-11-17T10:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:06:51","slug":"learning-insight-and-causality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2025\/11\/17\/learning-insight-and-causality\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning, insight, and causality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the goal of teaching is learning, then how exactly does the brain make a difficult concept instantly clear?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a student of how the human brain works for as long as I can remember, particularly since the early days of my teaching. Teaching is moot if actual learning lags. Learning is difficult by definition, and making it sticky is even more challenging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/how-your-brain-creates-aha-moments-and-why-they-stick-20251105\/\">This article<\/a> provides a status update on research into what &#8220;insight&#8221; is, how it is formed, and how it aids learning and long-term memory. Worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>In the age of generative models, a better understanding of how insight is formed and the role of cause-effect triggers (water rises &#8211; Eureka!) is increasingly valuable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the goal of teaching is learning, then how exactly does the brain make a difficult concept instantly clear? I&#8217;ve been a student of how the human brain works for as long as I can remember, particularly since the early days of my teaching. Teaching is moot if actual learning lags. Learning is difficult by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}