1Sérgio rebelo

I would call it digestion. Some things are not easily assimiliated without digestion, on the other hand some others are already digested when delivered to you

October 25, 2006

2Michael Surtees

heyishouldemailyouthatlink would be my one word...

October 25, 2006

3Noah Brier

Sergio, digestion is fantastic. Thanks a bunch. Maybe 'slow digestion' is even more descriptive?

Michael, I can't believe I didn't think of 'heyishouldemailyouthatlink' . . . how could I ever miss it? :)

October 25, 2006

4Max Kalehoff

I would call it digestion plus regurgitation (a word I use a lot), becauase we eventually digest things then spit them back up in the form of citations, quotations and mutations.

But the notion of "latency" is a key dimension of digestion and regurgitation.

October 25, 2006

5Pam

Hmmm, I've been using the word "retrofitting" a lot, to describe going back to something to customize it. So maybe "retrogestion" or "retrosorption" or something to that effect?

October 25, 2006

6Dave

A lot of cognitive psych folks refer to a similar experience as "incubation." This is the period between first hearing an idea (or multiple ideas) and the "aha" moment, during which synthesis takes place. The "aha" moment is when that synthesis becomes consciously apparent. Some people find that they come up with "unexpected" answers to problems at "unexpected" times, based on things they learned or observed a while back.

Any way, my two cents.

October 25, 2006

7barbara

I love this conversation! In my line of work, we talk a lot about double-loop learning and reflective practice and I always marvel at people who can synthesize input on the spot, where I need time to process what I've seen and heard. I don't know that I've actually got a word here ... but the thoughts are percolating :-)

October 25, 2006

8Paul McEnany

Damnit! Max stole mine. I was thinking latent knowledge or latent processing, something like that. Maybe latent knowledge processing. There ya go! Maybe latent theoritical knowledge processing. Or retroactive latent theoritical knowledge processing. Or maybe digestive retroactive latent theoritical knowledge processing. Or possibly digestive retroactive latent theoritical knowledge regurgative processing. Something like that.

October 25, 2006

9Noah Brier

These are all so good.

Another one I thought of is slow boil.

October 25, 2006

10jeff

if you ever use the word "retrofitting" and i hear about it, i'll come after you with a pointy stick.

October 26, 2006

11Charles

Dave, "incubation" was first in my mind as well.

I think it makes the process more intimate, because eggs are intimate. After all, what's more intimate than your inner thought process?

.

October 26, 2006

12Richard

I think the word you're looking for is "obsessive compulsive guilty conscience" because it keeps haunting you, "boiling" your mind. What do you think?

October 26, 2006

13jeff

how about "koala infestation"? at first, you're angry that a bunch of uninvited koalas are in your home but after a short time you realize that koalas are actually quite cuddly and fun and begin to accept them as part of your life.

October 26, 2006

14corinne flax

this is the best conversation ever
not that i have anything to say

October 26, 2006

15New York Punk

Hammer head, or just, hammered.

(Like...when you have an hammer, everything else looks like a nail...)

November 3, 2006