The nature of Heuristics. D Lenat (Reader)

Hope everybody had a decent summer

As we weigh human vs artificial intelligence, the question of whether it is
possible to automate
heuristic reasoning comes up.
I have the pleasure of remembering  Doug Lenat with the attached paper
written almost half a century ago
and still relevant today
Attached PDF under fair use for reflection and discussion

Doug Lenat, 1982
Stanford
CS @Standord

The Nature of Heuristics

Heuristics are compiled hindsight, and draw their power from the various
kinds of regularity and continuity in the world; they arise through
specialization, generalization, and—surprisingly often—analogy. Forty years
ago, Polya introduced Heuretics as a separable field worthy of study. Today
(1982) we are finally able to carry out the kind of computation-intensive
experiments which make such study possible.