What do you mean by epiphany? explain

Epiphany is also called inspiration. Refers to the thinking process of solving problems by understanding and discovering the relationship between goals and means. This way of thinking usually appears in the process of solving new problems by using existing knowledge and principles. It is a sudden process, and a strong accidental factor, like a flash of lightning, makes people suddenly enlightened.

Its physiological mechanism is the connection between the dominant excitation center of cerebral cortex and some temporary neural connections in the inhibitory area.

For example:

Put the chimpanzee in a cage with two bamboo poles that can be connected. There are bananas outside the cage. Chimpanzees must connect these two bamboo poles if they want to eat bananas.

After the chimps are locked in cages, they reach for bananas with their hands first, and then reach for bananas with bamboo poles. After two attempts, chimpanzees failed to get bananas.

At this time, the chimpanzee stopped to look at the bananas outside and played with two bamboo poles from time to time. By chance, two bamboo poles were connected together, and he soon got food with the connected bamboo poles.

Chimpanzees are very satisfied with their invention and keep repeating this way of getting bananas.

The accidental invention of chimpanzees can be called epiphany.

Extended data:

Zen emphasizes enlightenment. Epiphany and Zen have many similarities, and it is also a process of continuous "enlightenment". We increase our knowledge in teaching students to learn, improve our understanding in thinking and understand the truth in teaching. ...

It is precisely because of "enlightenment" that people can constantly rise from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge, recover their reason from impulse, discover awakening from chaos, see through right and wrong, distinguish right from wrong, distinguish good from bad, and distinguish beauty from ugliness.

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