Unfortunately, the article is down right now, so I don't have the context for that quote. But in "Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman makes that same poin

Unfortunately, the article is down right now, so I don't have the context for that quote. But in "Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman makes that same point that most of our reasoning is kind of heuristic pattern matching. There are lots of experiments that show evidence of this behavior cited in his book. Certainly people can turn it off and logically reason about things when desired, but it's slow and taxing, and the heuristics people live by mostly work, so it's frequently unneeded.