Heuristic Growth This web page sketches out a thesis on the nature of cognive growth via examples of problem-solving in action. Strategic Problem Solving by Children, MIT Professors, Horses and Donkeys In college level physics advanced students meet a refined form of the ByPass heuristic in thermodynamics, where the effect of a transition from a state A to a state B is computing by introducing a fictitious state C. Yet even 4 year olds have been observed applying this problem solving scheme. But when a horse by passes an obstacle to attain a desired location --is it truly applying the ByPass Heuristic ? The Inclined Bottle Experiment Classic Piagetian puzzle Inducia Capillaria Inducia Capillaria is one the Lakatosian Monsters -- high school and junior college level, from the compilation "A Dragon Hunter's Box" Inducia Capillaria Hg Inducia Capillaria is the Lakatosian Monster that further mocks Inducia Capillaria. Requires qualitative understanding at the level of high school and junior college level phyics. Reproduced here from the compilation "A Dragon Hunter's Box" REFERENCES Harvey A. Cohen, The Art of Snaring Dragons, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo 338, No 338, May 1975. Downloadable Andrea di Sessa and Bruce L. Sherin, What Changes in Cognitive Growth, International Journal of Science Education, 20(10), 1155-1191 (1998) J. Piaget, The Child's Concept of Number, Norton, New York (1965); J.Piaget and B.Inhelder, The Child's Concept of Space, Norton, New York (1967). Some insist that not only did Plato give the first exposition but that Greek is the natural language to discuss epistemology The Art of Snaring Dragons Dragon Home Page