Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas writes:
> It’s not “things people have learned to expect”, it’s “things
> people apprehend without having to think consciously”. Which is
> what “intuitive” means.
I believe many people make a distinction between unconscious
apprehension as perception ("intuition") and unconscious apprehension
as memory ("training", "custom", or "habit"). Practically that may be
a distinction without a difference, but that's a different argument.
This distinction is made, even if you wouldn't.
> It doesn’t matter whether that intuition is pre-wired instinct or
> conditioning or intellectual learning or some neurotic mistake.
I think "pre-wired instinct" is indeed different, though. That will
evolve on a different time scale from conditioning, etc (at least, the
millennials who made "OK, Boomer" trend think so!) You also omit the
mystical "direct grasping" of Zen, which supposes that intuition is an
emergent phenomenon of conscious mind. (I don't claim such "direct
grasping" exists, or that anyone in this thread does, but there are
definitely people who do.)
Steve
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