When past associative correlation can drive the unknown to the known are there other paths? Yes.
Edge constraints, back propagation, and many more " action " oriented systems are routinely created to navigate an environment to be interacted with and or to change it, and where designers, engineers, managing directors, finance professionals and any number of specific discipline users are part of any such system.
But what is the effect of only looking at problems / opportunities from the standpoint of the discipline that you are trying to see past. Well it ends up that one set of principals, biological thinking ( an abstraction / alternative window to say design thinking, systems thinking, etc,. ) is where we see two very specific ways that groups begin to look at environmental scenarios of interest. And biological thinking is one of many such alternative viewing systems.
Surprisingly when determining the type of outlook that a person, team, group, organization, etc., begins to have when completely different vocabulary is introduced and shared, is where a new way of looking an an entire environment can occur but how? Can Abstraction Help Ideation? Clearly bridging this gap of alternative models to biologically inspired design allows non-interlinear jumps, and all by looking back is where possible pattern matching can also be first taking place but is it specifically required? Surprisingly even more it becomes that Rules + Constraints & History + Abstractions are methods and where there are countless others and All part of a abstraction biology lens or any number of other lenses for underlying patterns to emerge. In the world of R&D this is the every day capability and mindset. Where can the next leap be made from ?
In more than one case the well known alternative combination and recombination of what can be considered rectilinear pieces to a puzzle is where the repurposing occurs and which is directly supplanted by data systems, storage systems, processing systems and interaction systems that come into being with new technological change. In this it is the completely different ( almost artistic and certainly evolutionary: seeking completely unexpected alternatives ) ways of thinking that allow for even more unique and valuable outcomes to emerge from in some cases naturally occurring patterns that have the ability to create looking back and forward all at the same time.
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