This is an unconventional way of 'finding solutions' to to anything.  Best explained through likening to Elmer R Gates, here's is an extract -

"Through years of recorded observations, he discovered psychotaxis, the integrated hierarchy of sensory discriminations required to create a valid and complete mental representation of a given part of the physical world".... 

Gates used psychotaxis to invent. - Pasted from <https://www.elmergates.com/>