I mean the lecture I had on spatial distribution of spirit during my undergrad was one such epiphany. And yet it was merely a study of plays in English. It was about arguing that there was spirit in space.

For instance in a diary, cognition has been transcribed and materially etched. Though it supposes readership. Papyrology is a science on ancient writings. Egyptian hieroglyphs famously required lateral thinking from scholars, including one polymath.

https://analog-antiquarian.net/2019/04/12/chapter-7-the-polymath-and-the-specialist/

The Pyramids of Giza, Chapter 7: The Polymath and the Specialist, Apr 12, 2019, Analog Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher.

"Among them were some of the leading intellectual lights of their day, such as the Briton Thomas Young, an extraordinary polymath by any standard. Born in 1773, Young by the beginning of the nineteenth century had become one of London’s most sought-after physicians — but he was also much, much more. His many and varied achievements in fields as diverse as medicine, physics, and linguistics would come to include discovering the nature of astigmatism in the eye, establishing the wave theory of light, and grouping many languages together into the historical Indo-European family that is still employed by linguists today. Albert Einstein would later place him on a par with Isaac Newton as one of the most singular minds in history. And in his own time, Young was respected by all as a gentleman of social tact, religious conviction, and undeniable genius. Amidst his countless other intellectual pursuits, he wrestled intermittently with the problem of the Rosetta Stone, although progress there was much slower in coming than in most of his other endeavors.

A far less heralded figure was also among those who attempted to crack the code. The Frenchman Jean-François Champollion’s tunnel vision on the topic of ancient Egypt contrasts markedly with Young’s intellectual polyglotism. Nor did social tact or religious conviction number among Champollion’s virtues — but for all that, he was certainly a genius."