Einstein used structured cognitive scaffolds to step partially outside his everyday perceptual frame when inducing his eureka states. Salvador Dali exploited the same liminal boundary for artistic imagery, and Edison used hypnagogic drift to trigger conceptual recombination.
Science and art both emerge in the higher layers of the mind, where language, imagery and abstract schema interact. If you want to use this territory deliberately, combine multimodal re-encoding of your separate knowledge silos with level 1 and level 2 induction methods to prime the realisation process.
Neural systems tend to reorganise towards energy-efficient configurations. Under the right conditions, the attractor that forms is often close to the correct structural solution for a given problem.
This is the mechanism behind Einstein’s thought experiments and, in my case, the route by which I derived my theory of enlightenment. The method is probabilistic rather than reliable, but when the attractor settles in the right configuration, the result can be decisive.