ABSTRACT
Max Wertheimer described the smart generalizations as “realizing structural features and structural requirements: proceeding in accordance with and determined by these requirements.” The connections, the items, data, operations are structure-blind or structure-neutral, blind to their structural dynamic function with the whole, and blind to the structural requirements.” Deep structure tends to be associated with ‘meaningful’ properties, and surface structure tends to be associated with more transient, insignificant changes. J. Miller’s construct of chunking may perhaps be critical to linking the construct of smart heuristics with the earliest intuitions associated with Cybernetic models of cognition. One aspect of the structure of the game of chess that appears to be important to experts is the distribution of pieces relative to attacking different areas of the board. For many, a full understanding of the rat learning the maze will depend on grounding the process in the micro-structure of the nervous system.
