Re:Ask HN: Do you think intuition is as valuable as rational...
by jimrandomh on Saturday November 06, 2010 @01:42PM
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Intuition represents all the reasoning that your brain does but which you aren't able to put into words. In many cases, that includes important information and heuristics which you would be ill advised to ignore. However, that also includes information and heuristics that may be incorrect; so if your intuition disagrees with your explicit reasoning, you should debug both to figure out which one's wrong and how.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you think intuition is as valuable as rational...
by siracguy on Saturday November 06, 2010 @03:23PM
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This is what I was thinking as well as I followed this thread. What we call "intuition" is often a conclusion from our subconscious mind based on cues and observations of which we may not be explicitly aware.
In other words, our mind is constantly watching and learning, and then matching that data to patterns we've observed in the past; not all of this information reaches the front of our consciousness.
Of course, if it's subconscious, it is easy to get misled, or match patterns inaccurately since there is no rigorous examination involved about the underlying assumptions.