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They’re called heuristics in problem-solving literature. Both heuristics and meta-heuristics have been used in planning software. Heuristics from one system are sometimes reused in another system. So, you can memorized generic, problem-solving strategies.

I don’t know how much human brains do in that area vs non-memorization approaches. Ive read about how practicing rational, problem solving in specific domains to bake those heuristics into one’s intuition for faster responses. Most of us have done that, too. Any type of intuitive, problem solving probably involves memorization for that reason.



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