Knowledge and Problem-Solving KNOWLEDGE AND PROBLEMSOLVING

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The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between problemsolving capabilities and knowledge. The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental tenets of both the realm of problemsolving and that of the ways in which the mind, as an element of both being and body, absorbs and transmits knowledge, and then to discuss, with appropriate reference to selected authoritative sources, the nexus of the mind's product, knowledge, and the uses to which one may put it with reference to resolving contradictions or problems one encounters.

A number of theories of the relationship between mind and body on one hand, and between mind and mental activity which may be translated into somatic action on the other. HampdenTurner's view of the nexus between mind and body appears to be that it implies the connection between knowledge and problemsolving. In this regard, he places the processes of the mind on a gradually expanding range of mental hierarchy, in which at the first level the mind functions as a simple perceptual biological organ and by the ninth level, having integrated biology with psychology, it embraces a full range of psychobiological and psychosocial capabilities that allow it to extend into the external world of culture and myth. The approach is frankly imagistic, to the degree that HampdenTurner sees the mind as capable of

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x than linear and logical forms, so may solutions be found from other than logical or linear sources. In other words, lateral thinking is the name given to a whole range of processes that involve a new way of thinking (hence of knowledge accumulation); his view is that this implies more creative solutions to problems against which knowledge/information must be measured. DeBono is careful to make the point that he does not suggest that every solution arrived at by means of lateral as opposed to linear thought will be successful; one can always be wrong. But consider the consequences of a solutiongonewrong that has been arrived at because, as it were, "this is the way things should be done." Lacking alternative solutions or paths to solution, the verticalthought approach impoverishes the universe of solutions once it fails. For the reason that by its nature lateral thought (or insight or intuition or any similar process) admits of the potential for solution from random sources, one failed solution can be transmuted into another attempt at a successful one. Indeed, a "successful" solution to a problem may have unintended problematic consequences: the passage of the Civil Rights Bill may have led to retrenchment of the S
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