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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by stcredzero on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:13PM (#1455941)
We are born with a fear of heights. It takes a little awhile to develop object permanence, but there's very little risk of people not getting it. The brain is not a blank slate -- that's ideological dogma from bygone days. Science is showing the brain has a lot of functionality baked into the hardware. Read Steven Pinker's books for the general interest overview.

There indeed is a real intuitive.

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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by Groxx on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:16PM (#1455948)
And how would you suggest leveraging it for computer interfaces? Putting the dangerous things over the edge of a cliff?
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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by stcredzero on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @04:07PM (#1456151)
Read Pinker's books. There's a lot more than my two examples. (Though either one alone demolishes your earlier claim that all "intuitive" is learned.) There's a lot of intuitive stuff around Geometry alone that painters have been exploiting since cave paintings. I think there's plenty more we can do as computer people with that alone.
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