Intuition Reliability Debate
The cluster discusses the value, reliability, and nature of intuition versus explicit reasoning, debating whether to trust gut feelings, their potential for error, and how they relate to unconscious pattern recognition.
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Intuition shouldn't be considered harmful.
Reasoning from intuition has a terrible track record, I'm afraid.
I know you said intuition but can you elaborate why you think that?
It's nice that sometimes intuition works out better than desperate reasoning...
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.
Would we call that "intuition"?
Intuition is not proof. We all have many intuitive ideas that are not actually true!
why do you think is difficult to check your intuitions?
Care to elaborate on the "intuitive sense" part?
This is called intuition and not analysis.