This is also what science at large is. The scientific models that encode our understanding of the world are symbolic -- usually expressed in math. And they were developed via a heavily intuition-driven process.

François Chollet (@fchollet)
Science went from the initial observation of radioactivity to a working atom bomb over 47 years via only about 9 distinct key experiments -- extremely few data points -- and symbolic models concise enough they would fit on a single page.

This is what extreme generalization looks like, and it powered entirely by symbolic compression. Turn a handful of data points (deliberately collected) into a tractable plan to completely reshape reality, by reverse-engineering the causal symbolic rules behind the data.