2.4 Lateral Thinking (continued)

Conclusions

These are a few of the formal techniques that can be used in lateral thinking. The techniques provide special opportunities for lateral thinking processes to occur on the memory‑surface. Just as a scientific experiment is a designed opportunity for informa­tion to become manifest, so the formal techniques are oppor­tunities for information to become arranged in new patterns. The patterns will be different, some of them may be better.