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title: "Explaining the Ineffable: AI on the Topics of Intuition, Insight and Inspiration"
authors:
  - "Herbert A. Simon"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/122"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0122.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "939-948"
track: "Awards"
keywords:
---

# Explaining the Ineffable: AI on the Topics of Intuition, Insight and Inspiration

Herbert A. Simon

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 939-948.

## Abstract

Artificial intelligence methods may be used to model human intelligence or to build intelligent (expert) computer systems. AI has already reached the stage of human simulation where it can model such "ineffable" phenomena as intuition, insight and inspiration. This paper reviews the empirical evidence for these capabilities.