The Anatomy of a Eureka, Part IV: When Solutions Become Probes

The Anatomy of a Eureka, Part IV: When Solutions Become Probes In the first three parts of this series, I built the Extraction-Inversion-Composition framework (EIC) as a forward instrument: start from a problem, extract causal rules from distant domains, invert them, compose them into novel solutions. But a question kept nagging at me. If causal rules are portable across domains in one direction, they should be portable in the other direction too. What happens when you run the framework backwards? ...

April 17, 2026 · 19 min · Gabriel Mailhot