what no stimulus?

We’ve all at some time or other ’solved problems’ by “sleeping on them.” Anyhow I recently came across some blog entries discussing this whole subconcious problem solving thing. (See items here and here ).

Well what’s new is that there now seems to be some recent psychological study of just how “idle minds” work on problems. As the psychologist researcher says they are not day dreaming, just engaged in “stimulus independent thought”

“Stimulus independent thought” (SIT …?). Hmmmm. This reminds me of an old joke. “Sometimes I just sits and thinks, sometimes I just SITs”.