I think of percolation as a means for false and dead-end assumptions to fade from the thought web. Actually, I see two aspects of it, the other is when you have insufficient information and that is addressed by peripheral research.
Btw, HK, I'd swap in "perspective" for "maturity" in your earlier post, because maturity carries so much baggage and is often thrown as a barrier for the progress of gifted learners.
Good point. I mean it in the authentic sense of the definition, though-- once one reaches a point of sufficient metacognitive skill that the learner is driving the bus, and not the bus driving itself. DD is only starting to mark this transition to deliberate autodidactism.
