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But intuition is not something fixed like an extra toe or even ingrained through a lifetime like a sexual fetish. The core of what humans do is acquire new abst
by thanatropism 7y ago
But intuition is not something fixed like an extra toe or even ingrained through a lifetime like a sexual fetish. The core of what humans do is acquire new abstractions in such a way that what was previously convoluted is now intuitive.
"Intuitive" is a word for "stuff I already know". Symplectic geometry is unintuitive until you learn it. Learn stuff.
- carapace 7y agoYeah. Jef Raskin pointed out that we use "intuitive" to mean "familiar" (in IT.) The computer mouse seems so "intuitive" today, but when he first handed a mouse to someone else, an architect IIRC, to use she turned it upside down and tried to use it like a little trackball. ("The Humane Interface")