The Box

Can a normal human think outside of the box?

I don't believe it to be possible. I don't think humans are capable of thinking outside of the "box."

Example, and I'm sure that many people may have seen this before:

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Connect all the dots without lifting your pencil with only 4 lines.

If you have seen this before or seen something similar to it, then it is quite simple to do the task. If you haven't, it would be nearly impossible.

The point of this is that to do it, you must literally think outside of the box. Now, given a person that has never seen this puzzle, the literal "box" would contain these 9 dots. To someone that has done the puzzle however, the "box" contains all the the dots and the white space around it.

The box for these people has expanded. And in that expansion, people have learned a new technique to solving problems, and their IQ has increased.

What I'm basically trying to say is that people don't think outside of the box, their boxes just expand.